Interesting little study

[Chris Losinger]

connections between books on the "customers who bought X also bought Y" lists. (warning, poltical content :) ) http://www.orgnet.com/leftright.html -c

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[Stan Shannon]

I'm not too suprised by that. We seem to a culture becoming increasingly divided between two opposing political points of view. Most of those books on the right (red) are on my reading list. :) "My job is to protect America" George W. Bush.

[KaRl]

The area described by red points is smaller than the blue one. Stubborn people :rolleyes: ?

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[Chris Losinger]

also note that the number of interconnections between books is much higher on the right side - the people are all reading the same books. :) -c

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[Brit]

Even better question: what books have CP members read? (I'd be curious to see whether people here are following the same patterns.) As for me: Lexus and the Olive Tree Bias (but stopped reading after about 50 pages. The author seemed like he was just grinding an axe.) The funny thing is that my dad (conservative) recommended three books to me a few weeks ago - all in the conservative group, none of which I am likely to read: Slander Invasion No-Spin Zone BTW, I thought Bill O'Reilly was considered 'independent' rather than conservative. He seems to land squarely in the conservative camp here. (I've never read anything by him, so I don't know.) ------------------------------------------ "What happened in that Rhode Island club is shocking. To think that over a hundred people would attend a Great White concert." - The Onion

[Jason Henderson]

Reading political books is about as interesting to me as romance novels. I read the O'Reilly Factor and didn't care for it. I'd like to read Hannity's book but then again I'd rather spend my money on a good computer book. The only political books I really liked are anything by P.J. O'Rourke. I sort of liked Rush Limbaugh's two books but it was just more of what you hear on the air. P.J.'s books are well written, logical, and funny as heck.

Jason Henderson
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi

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[Michael A Barnhart]

Interesting but I am not sure what it tells me. I just spent 20 minutes on Amazons site and yes many of those links are suggestions by the site. So is this showing how the sellers are manipulating things. Or do we really want to buy those combinations. I would suspect that giving those combinations increases book sales. I also noticed that the centers of both are books on how the system is being manipulated vs about the people (at least that is how I took the commentaries.) I also noticed that some percentage of the public commentaries looked like the readers were looking for the book to support what they already felt. But my 20 minutes may not be accurate. It would be interesting to see how many combined purchases had to happen before being listed and why not also list combinations purchased by the same buyer and not just at the same time. The online stores should easily have that information. As Brit pointed out he has read one on each side and no link. ""

[Chris Losinger]

i don't read political books. i wouldn't be able to stand having the author trying to convince me that his/her viewpoint was The Truth. i can barely stand it when i see the hand of the author in fiction. i guess i spent too much time dissecting books in Literature classes to be able to ignore blatant attempts at manipulation. :) so, the last 5 books i've read are: American Gods - Neil Gaiman (still working on it actually) Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole The Scar - China Meiville (awesome!) Words and Rules - Stephen Pinker Morphological Image Processing - Soille (still working on it) before that: American Pastoral - Phillip Roth Perdido Street Station - China Meiville (awesome, read this before The Scar) The Language Instinct - Stephen Pinker everything Jonathan Lethem has written i'm sure when i get home i'll see two or three more that i forgot to list. -c

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