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 62 books in Popular Science
T
BT: 0.13
1264 comparisons
T
BT: -0.02
491 comparisons
W
BT: -0.05
478 comparisons
G
BT: -0.07
327 comparisons
W
BT: -0.13
342 comparisons
T
BT: -0.25
309 comparisons
S
BT: -0.29
578 comparisons
T
BT: -0.31
377 comparisons
T
BT: -0.45
372 comparisons
M
BT: -0.63
392 comparisons
E
BT: -0.77
484 comparisons
H
BT: -0.88
393 comparisons
P
BT: -0.88
409 comparisons
L
BT: -1.26
381 comparisons
Q
BT: -1.65
388 comparisons
A
BT: -1.66
763 comparisons
W
BT: -1.80
359 comparisons
W
BT: -1.81
1244 comparisons
T
BT: -1.84
387 comparisons
T
BT: -1.93
359 comparisons
M
BT: -1.97
382 comparisons
O
BT: -2.05
1278 comparisons
T
BT: -2.30
1190 comparisons
T
BT: -2.31
343 comparisons
F
BT: -2.49
351 comparisons
E
BT: -2.55
671 comparisons
R
BT: -2.85
337 comparisons
T
BT: -2.96
338 comparisons
B
BT: -3.28
365 comparisons
T
BT: -3.97
494 comparisons
C
BT: -4.23
203 comparisons
T
BT: -4.81
123 comparisons
A
BT: -5.31
226 comparisons
