{"id":475,"date":"2005-12-12T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/my-favorite-bands-a-scientific-approach-part-ii"},"modified":"2005-12-12T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T06:22:50","slug":"my-favorite-bands-a-scientific-approach-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/my-favorite-bands-a-scientific-approach-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Bands (A Scientific Approach) Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/my-favorite-bands-a-scientific-approach\">Previously<\/a>, I listed my favorite bands based on the number of songs they had in my &#8220;Favorites&#8221; playlist. A highly correlated yet uniquely distinct measurement is a listing (by <a href=\"http:\/\/last.fm\/\">last.fm<\/a>) of the <a href=\"http:\/\/last.fm\/user\/arcanius\">songs I&#8217;ve listened to<\/a>. Having been a member for a couple of weeks now, I figure the sample might be apporaching statistical significance, so it must be time to write about it. I say that this list highly correlated because I generally randomly play songs from my favorites list, so of course bands more frequently on this list will show up more often, on average. However, I have been known to want to listen to specific songs as well, which seems to be the reason behind the disporporionately high ranking of Harvey Danger, among others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Key:<br \/>\nRank Band Plays<\/p>\n<p>1 Linkin Park 85<br \/>\n2 Evanescence 38<br \/>\n3 Harvey Danger 29<br \/>\n4 Metallica 22<br \/>\n5 Burkhard Dallwitz &#038; Philip Glass 18<br \/>\n6 U2 17<br \/>\n7 Silverchair 16<br \/>\n7 Collective Soul 16<br \/>\n9 The Smashing Pumpkins 15<br \/>\n9 Screaming Trees 15<br \/>\n11 Santana 14<br \/>\n11 Alice in Chains 14<br \/>\n11 The String Quartet Tribute To Linkin Park 14<br \/>\n11 WMEA (Washington Music Educator&#8217;s Association &#8212; All State!) 14<br \/>\n15 Stone Temple Pilots 12<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, I know&#8230; Linkin Park shows up twice. So sue me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously, I listed my favorite bands based on the number of songs they had in my &#8220;Favorites&#8221; playlist. A highly correlated yet uniquely distinct measurement is a listing (by last.fm) of the songs I&#8217;ve listened to. Having been a member for a couple of weeks now, I figure the sample might be apporaching statistical significance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}