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*Note: the scale of “Liking” a song was 1=complete dislike, 5=complete like

The results of my survey showed that in general, Pandora did a great job in finding songs that the person liked. For the graph above, I averaged the ‘score’ given to each song to find, on average, how well Pandora picked out a song.  Pandora scored in the range of 4 and above for all the participants, showing that in general, it picked out songs that the participants liked.  These findings can also support the idea that people are more or less ‘happy’ or feel ‘positively’ about a company that is able to write an algorithm to predict musical taste. All the responses to this question were “4” on the scale of Positive (5) to Negative (1). This makes sense because everyone who took this survey was overall satisfied with the songs picked out, and thus why would they not like a music site that helps them find other songs that they like (but they just don’t know about!).  The average response for the satisfaction in the reasons Pandora chose each song was 3.6, meaning that in general, people were slightly more satisfied than not. Pandora simply provides a name to an attribute that the participants liked but simply did not know what the technical term was.