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 96 books in Biology
B
BT: -0.06
361 comparisons
N
BT: -0.12
373 comparisons
M
BT: -0.23
328 comparisons
T
BT: -0.25
309 comparisons
H
BT: -0.39
408 comparisons
T
BT: -0.45
364 comparisons
T
BT: -0.45
372 comparisons
S
BT: -0.76
361 comparisons
T
BT: -0.76
333 comparisons
E
BT: -0.77
484 comparisons
B
BT: -0.84
398 comparisons
C
BT: -0.93
423 comparisons
T
BT: -0.98
736 comparisons
L
BT: -1.26
381 comparisons
T
BT: -1.32
670 comparisons
F
BT: -1.38
395 comparisons
E
BT: -1.39
425 comparisons
T
BT: -1.62
893 comparisons
A
BT: -1.66
763 comparisons
O
BT: -1.99
350 comparisons
T
BT: -2.05
376 comparisons
J
BT: -2.06
365 comparisons
W
BT: -2.12
391 comparisons
F
BT: -2.17
339 comparisons
O
BT: -2.30
343 comparisons
T
BT: -2.30
1190 comparisons
T
BT: -2.32
352 comparisons
T
BT: -2.41
365 comparisons
T
BT: -2.49
354 comparisons
S
BT: -2.64
328 comparisons
H
BT: -2.71
324 comparisons
P
BT: -3.42
313 comparisons
A
BT: -3.54
327 comparisons
G
BT: -3.56
320 comparisons
M
BT: -3.61
433 comparisons
F
BT: -3.82
322 comparisons
U
BT: -3.83
274 comparisons
P
BT: -3.91
293 comparisons
D
BT: -4.19
160 comparisons
I
BT: -4.32
206 comparisons
O
BT: -4.58
136 comparisons
T
BT: -5.51
137 comparisons