I decided to do a little stats analyzing (oh, my inner nerd) to see if those genres I tend to like get more 5 star reviews than genres I don't normally like. And, of course, if the reverse is true of 2 star reviews. Specifically, I wanted to see if fantasy had more positive reviews and realistic fiction had more negative. Here's the breakdown from my blog in pie chart form (see above parenthetical exclamation):
And discovered that fantasy also tops that list. Mind you, I found that I nearly equally give 2 star reviews to each genre. In fact, the only genre that seemed to move up a bit in comparison to 5 star reviews was paranormal (which, I kind of expected). As this kind of disproved my initial theory, I thought I'd better look at my overall reading by genre. I only did reading for this year since the data was the most complete.
As you can see, fantasy does top my list at 31%, though I was a bit surprised by how low dystopian was on the scale (only 13%). It feels like I've been reading lots of that, but I guess not in comparison to fantasy and paranormal. Based on this, it makes sense that fantasy tops both my 5 and 2 star reviews. I read quite a bit more of that genre than any other, so I should have more reviews in general of that genre, both good and bad.
If you've stuck with me thus far, bravo for you! Do you find yourself reading more of a certain genre or thinking you give more negative reviews of a specific genre?
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What an interesting little study here! I bet fantasy is quite high on my lists too, though I'm not sure I've given many 2 stars to anything. :) One thing I learned here, I didn't really know that you didn't like reality fiction. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteI love this! What did you program did you use to collect your data?
ReplyDeleteDid you actually do all that work yourself?! Wow, I wonder what a pie chart for me would look like. I also wonder if you've read less of one genre but liked them all does that make it's percentage higher? Wow, I don't even think I'm making sense, I'm still really tired. I'm thinking fantasy would top my charts too.
ReplyDeleteSuey, well I thought that anyway, since I've not liked much realistic stuff I've read, but apparently I like quite a few!
ReplyDeleteMiss Remmers, I sure hope there isn't an easy program out there to add this stuff up, cause I did it myself and used excel to make the pie charts.
Jenny, I counted the 2 and 5 star reviews by hand (which is why I didn't got near 3 and 4 stars), but I always keep track of how many of what genre I read as I go along. Reading less of one but liking them all would change to total %, but if I did relative % (in ratios of #read/#liked) it would improve. Did that make any sense?
Oy, apparently I'm brain dead today. I meant it *wouldn't* change the overall %, just the relative %. (And while I'm correcting I meant *go* not got. Is it Friday yet?
ReplyDeleteOooh, I love analyzing my stats at the end of each year. I find it totally interesting. I'm nerdy like that.
ReplyDeleteThe only genre that I think I give consistently low "grades" to is cozies/culinary mysteries. I don't read a lot of them because I never like them much, but I wish I did, so I keep reading them. It's weird.
I've been reading so much for challenges that my reading this year doesn't reflect what I want to read at any given moment. I'd be curious to see how the numbers broke down. Thanks for the idea :)
ReplyDeleteSusan, I thought that about some of the realistic fiction I've been reading recently, which is why I did the stats. I don't think I've read more than 1 cozy mystery, because I think I wouldn't like them much either!
ReplyDeletestacy, oh I'm sure that's a good thing to read outside what you want. It will definitely make your stats more interesting!