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Bork
Executive Hillbilly

Location: Vinson Mountain, GA

Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):

1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)

It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's.

RFNAPLES
Level 8

Gender: Male
Age: 75
Location: Durham, NC, USA

"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"--Mark Twain

You might be interested in:
Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics (illust. I. Geis), Norton, New York, 1954, ISBN 0393310728
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Charicature

Age: 49
Location: Vermont

Bork wrote:

Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):

1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)

It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's.

Congratulations! You're offically a stodgy old codger Wink

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Cryptozoologist

Age: 31
Location: New York

[quote="RFNAPLES"]"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.'"--Mark Twain

You might be interested in:
Darrell Huff, How to Lie with Statistics (illust. I. Geis), Norton, New York, 1954, ISBN 0393310728[/quote]

At first I didn't agree with this, but then I read it more carefully and realized you took the words right out of my mouth

cartoken
The Seer

Gender: Male
Age: 39
Location: Paris

Bork wrote:

Riskin' that it becomes common knowledge that I'm a bit of a statistics nerd, I played around with my list of rated albums and noted that the average rating differed wildly between the decades. Not surprised to see the results really, but here is hard evidence that the 70's were the best decade in music (I just calculated the average rating of all the albums I have rated so far):

1970's 80 point av. (144 rated albums)
1980's 75 point av. (102 rated albums)
1960's 70 point av. (85 rated albums)
1950's 70 point av. (29 rated albums)
1990's 65 point av. (75 rated albums)
2000's 60 point av. (120 rated albums)
2010's 55 point av. (16 rated albums)

It is thus established that in the 1970's the albums were on average 33% better than they were in the 2000's.

statistically (scientifically) speaking your results are not significant.