Marginal Revolution Book Rankings
Tyler and Alex's favorites from Marginal Revolution
How it works: I scraped every post categorized under 'books'. Then extracted book titles and relevant review context from each post. I then submitted a couple million pairs of reviews to an LLM to compare and determine which book review had more positive sentiment. I used these comparisons to fit a Bradley-Terry model which produces these rankings. I racked up a gemini bill so stopped shy of exhaustive 16 million comparisons, so it's not perfect, but roughly accurate.
Showing 59 books in Ancient History
S
BT: -0.25
356 comparisons
T
BT: -0.27
371 comparisons
P
BT: -0.28
346 comparisons
1
BT: -0.37
326 comparisons
A
BT: -0.69
364 comparisons
P
BT: -0.73
398 comparisons
P
BT: -0.85
365 comparisons
T
BT: -0.94
368 comparisons
W
BT: -0.96
371 comparisons
E
BT: -1.08
374 comparisons
T
BT: -1.17
608 comparisons
L
BT: -1.50
744 comparisons
E
BT: -1.67
716 comparisons
T
BT: -2.03
749 comparisons
T
BT: -2.25
342 comparisons
T
BT: -2.50
377 comparisons
T
BT: -2.52
335 comparisons
D
BT: -2.62
327 comparisons
C
BT: -2.66
345 comparisons
1
BT: -2.79
360 comparisons
A
BT: -2.79
350 comparisons
T
BT: -2.90
369 comparisons
T
BT: -3.01
300 comparisons
T
BT: -3.10
338 comparisons
R
BT: -3.40
321 comparisons
H
BT: -3.53
314 comparisons
H
BT: -3.79
295 comparisons
P
BT: -3.80
374 comparisons
A
BT: -3.86
274 comparisons
S
BT: -3.88
300 comparisons
P
BT: -4.04
194 comparisons
T
BT: -4.34
226 comparisons
T
BT: -5.04
124 comparisons