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Can we show causation between a book genre and its quality?

Saturday, May 14th, 2022

Quality is subjective, true, but can we show that no matter the audience a fantasy book is always better than an horror book? If this would be the case it’d mean that even readers who prefer horror books should give higher ratings to an horror-fantasy book than an horror book of other sub-genres.

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Do some books categories receive on average better ratings than others?

Sunday, May 8th, 2022

Do fantasy books on average get better ratings than sci-fi books? The answer seems to be yes, according to this little data science project I’ve build from Goodreads data.

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