I use Amazon and Goodreads for book reviews. Technically, Amazon owns Goodreads, but the user demogr

I use Amazon and Goodreads for book reviews. Technically, Amazon owns Goodreads, but the user demographics are quite different; Goodreads tends to have a younger, more female base, whereas Amazon is more representative of the general population. (I don’t have a legitimate source for this – it’s just what I’ve read on quantcast and other websites.)  So I decided to compare how books are rated on the two sites. I expected Goodreads to have higher ratings for young adult books, and lower ratings for classics. As it turns out, Amazon haw higher ratings across the board. The difference in average rating tends to be larger for the classics, but this is not always the case. The mode rating for all of these books on Amazon is five. On Goodreads, the mode rating is five for the young adult novels, but it is four or even three for some of the classics.A few notes: 1) When multiple versions of a book were listed on Amazon, I used a weighted average of the ratings from the versions with the most reviews. 2) Some classics could also be considered young adult books. Those that I’ve classified as young adult are modern, written in the past 20 years. 3) For books that are part of a series, I always used the first book (e.g., book one of The Hunger Games).Data sources: http://smile.amazon.com/ (Don’t forget the smile prefix!)https://www.goodreads.com/ -- source link

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