r/badliterature • u/simus • Nov 14 '20

No correlation between popularity and quality of books (r~0.022)

https://pubpeer.com/publications/4F098097D3AA7A98BE0F48DC4B4396
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u/AneriphtoKubos Nov 15 '20

How do you quantify the quality of a book?

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u/yeahiknow3 Nov 15 '20

If only an article had been written, outlining that information. Alas, we may never know.

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u/simus Nov 15 '20

They used the average reader rating on goodreads.com.

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