Attraction of Specific Signs to Specific Movies
Here's an interesting experiment. Determine whether specific astrological signs are more interested in specific movies than others. This can be done thru your Google profile.
Just go into your Dashboard and enter some specific movie into the "favorite movies" entry. Then you can double-click on it and count how many people of each specific sign indicated this movie as a favorite.
I thought of this when I double-clicked on two of my favorite movies: "12 Monkeys" and "Point of No Return". What was particularly interesting about these two movies is that virtually all of the the "12 Monkeys" fans are males, while virtually all of the "Point of No Return" fans are female. A large number of the females seemed to be Geminis or Aquariuses, two of the more "mental" signs (in more ways than one!).
But you could easily do counts on this and determine whether the astrological signs appearing are statistically significant. I think that you use the Chi-Square test. Right? I took 3 statistics courses in college, but it's been a while.
The results must also be repeatable. After coming to brilliant conclusions, try the test again 3 or 4 more times. See if it remains consistent.
11/1/11: I started to do this experiment, but Google is not very helpful in the way that it draws it's sample. It does not simply give you ALL people in the database who liked the particular movie. Instead, it keeps re-sampling, so it does not give an accurate picture of the total populaton.
Obviously, the percentages of each sign in the TOTAL POPULATION of people who liked that movie is what we want to see. It Google does a re-sample every time you hit "next page", then it doesn't mean diddly-squat.
I sent Google an e-mail about this, but they probably have no idea of what I'm talking about or why.
Try it yourself and you'll see how goofy it is. On the first page it might say 5 of 5000, then on the next page it says 14 of 3000, etc. WTF???
Maybe there's some way that I could access the database myself, altho I doubt it.
Just go into your Dashboard and enter some specific movie into the "favorite movies" entry. Then you can double-click on it and count how many people of each specific sign indicated this movie as a favorite.
I thought of this when I double-clicked on two of my favorite movies: "12 Monkeys" and "Point of No Return". What was particularly interesting about these two movies is that virtually all of the the "12 Monkeys" fans are males, while virtually all of the "Point of No Return" fans are female. A large number of the females seemed to be Geminis or Aquariuses, two of the more "mental" signs (in more ways than one!).
But you could easily do counts on this and determine whether the astrological signs appearing are statistically significant. I think that you use the Chi-Square test. Right? I took 3 statistics courses in college, but it's been a while.
The results must also be repeatable. After coming to brilliant conclusions, try the test again 3 or 4 more times. See if it remains consistent.
11/1/11: I started to do this experiment, but Google is not very helpful in the way that it draws it's sample. It does not simply give you ALL people in the database who liked the particular movie. Instead, it keeps re-sampling, so it does not give an accurate picture of the total populaton.
Obviously, the percentages of each sign in the TOTAL POPULATION of people who liked that movie is what we want to see. It Google does a re-sample every time you hit "next page", then it doesn't mean diddly-squat.
I sent Google an e-mail about this, but they probably have no idea of what I'm talking about or why.
Try it yourself and you'll see how goofy it is. On the first page it might say 5 of 5000, then on the next page it says 14 of 3000, etc. WTF???
Maybe there's some way that I could access the database myself, altho I doubt it.
posted by Mad Scientist | 11:23 AM
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