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 53 books in Autobiography
BT: 14.67
181 comparisons
M
BT: 0.07
1309 comparisons
T
BT: -0.07
316 comparisons
A
BT: -0.16
323 comparisons
O
BT: -0.29
347 comparisons
D
BT: -0.42
334 comparisons
T
BT: -0.46
401 comparisons
T
BT: -0.48
704 comparisons
A
BT: -0.55
1443 comparisons
N
BT: -0.62
379 comparisons
D
BT: -0.75
391 comparisons
S
BT: -0.86
366 comparisons
T
BT: -0.87
384 comparisons
T
BT: -1.04
374 comparisons
T
BT: -1.13
350 comparisons
H
BT: -1.23
404 comparisons
M
BT: -1.50
319 comparisons
M
BT: -1.58
398 comparisons
W
BT: -1.60
360 comparisons
T
BT: -1.82
361 comparisons
M
BT: -2.18
358 comparisons
H
BT: -2.58
341 comparisons
T
BT: -2.71
334 comparisons
B
BT: -2.91
300 comparisons
T
BT: -2.96
346 comparisons
T
BT: -3.36
501 comparisons
D
BT: -3.76
272 comparisons
A
BT: -3.90
209 comparisons
T
BT: -4.06
215 comparisons
T
BT: -5.30
113 comparisons
P
BT: -10.69
72 comparisons