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By 5 p.m. on Monday, October 26th (note extension!)
post here a one-paragraph interpretation of the results of your survey.
Support your interpretation with a graph of your respondents' answers to ONE (only one!) of your questions.

"Thinking about How You Think"
Find 5 subjects (doesn't matter who: hallmates, old high school friends, your parents....)
Ask each one of them to
1) Name a favorite musical artist.
2) List 5 attributes that you like about the artist's work.
3) Go to http://www.pandora.com/ and select this artist
(in the unlikely case that this artist is not in the archive,
you'll have to repeat questions 1-2 w/ another one).
4) Listen to the first 5 songs that Pandora "thinks" you'll like;
don't skip, listen to the whole song; don't do "thumbs up or down."
5) Did you like each of the songs Pandora chose? Rank each of those
selections from a scale of 1 (complete disagreement) to 5
(complete agreement with your preferences).
6) Look @ the reasons Pandora gives for selecting each of these songs:
on the same 1-5 scale (from complete disagreement to complete agreement),
how well do the musical elements Pandora identifies correspond with those you listed in #2 above?
7) On the same 1-5 scale: what's your reaction to the possibility that
this company might be able to write an algorithm that predicts
your musical taste? (from 1, most negative to 5, most positive)?