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            From the results of the survey, I found that on a scale of 1 to 5 the listeners gave the songs that were played an average rating of 3.84.  This shows that on average the listeners liked the songs that were played, but did not love them.  I would like to know why the listeners felt this way about the songs.  Had they never heard them before? Or did they know the song, but it wasn’t one of their favorites? As seen in the graph below, the participants in the survey put the reasons Pandora gave for choosing songs a 3.4 on the same 1 to 5 scale for matching their reasons for liking the artist.  From these two data points, we can deduct that on average the participants liked the songs more than their matching criteria said they should (3.84 compared to 3.4).  However, the difference in ratings for the two questions is minimal.  Two out of the five individuals that I surveyed said that part of the reason they did not love the songs that Pandora played was because Pandora matched the musical elements, but not the emotions or mood that the band they chose creates.  The emotional aspects of songs may be a part of the music equation that Pandora cannot solve or predict.  An additional question I would have liked to ask the participants is, “did Pandora introduce you to new artists or songs?"