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message 1: by Simon (last edited Jan 12, 2015 01:38PM) (new)

Simon (sorcerer88) | 176 comments I have created an anonymous poll asking for age to see at which age all of you decided to read Proust this year. To me and i'd assume to others this would be quite interesting. Obviously anonymous, since not everyone wishes to show his age here.
Here's the poll:
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/1...

Ideally this would be a survey, so we can see more things like whether its your first read (otherwise you need a lot of poll items). So the poll idea made me think about a year-end survey to document this group that has read all volumes of ISOLT. What can be said about this group, which statistics can we create? I'm sure we'd get interesting results. We could ask for your impressions in all kinds of ways, what parts impacted you the most, etc. Does anyone else have ideas for survey items?

We could also do a poll for each volume. If we also do one very soon, we'll see a partly unfortunate, but surely interesting statistic in how many readers stopped their journey (and at what point).
Also, the information we create in this group by posting might also generate some statistics (for example what's the most talked about topic, word, etc).

Any questions, concerns or ideas about the current age poll, surveys or statistics?
Oh and sorry if the poll invitation bothered you.


message 2: by Jacob (new)

Jacob (jacobvictorfisher) | 112 comments This is a great idea, Simon. It seems a natural extension of Proust's psychological analysis to reflect on the psychology of our reading experiences. Not only do I love flowing prose, I love data too!


message 3: by Charles (new)

Charles It would be fun.


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