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Average ranking of songs provided by Pandora

Generally, my respondents were very pleased with the songs that Pandora suggested based on their input. However, as Jessica noted before, there was not a strong correlation between how much respondents enjoyed a song and how closely Pandora's criteria matched the criteria specified by the user before the experiment. This suggests several possibilities. Perhaps, as we noticed in class, users do not know how to articulate their preferences with the same level of detail as Pandora provides. It is also possible that the music Pandora provides has other characteristics in common with the music specified by the user besides those that are isolated by the Music Genome Project, such as the mood of the music or of the lyrics, or that these ideas are articulated with very different words by Pandora and by users.