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A Systems View Across Time and Space

Table 3 RD values and reading preferences

From: Women, innovation, and literature

Type of pair

Sample ( n)

Mean RD value

p value

Matched buddy

95

0.665 ± 0.476

 

Random

95

0.894 ± 0.719

0.010

  1. Women readers of fiction joined ‘virtual book clubs’ online at http://www.personalbookclub.com, rated and reviewed books, and selected one ‘matched buddy’ based on similarity of reading tastes. The average difference in RD values between matched buddies and randomly scrambled pairs using the same individuals is shown in the table.