I like the idea here a great deal, but I expect there’s going to be a lot of variation in what creates what effect in whom. I wonder if there’s better ways to come up with aggregate recommendations, so we can find out what seems to be consistent in its EA appeal, vs. what’s idiosyncratic
It just occurred to me that I could make a survey in something like SurveyMonkey and link to it in the post, then periodically update the rankings in here if a decent number of people have voted.
I love your idea of aggregate recommendations and would be very interested in doing a version where that kind of functionality is possible. Off the top of my head, I can only think of posting each item in the list as an individual comment in here so people can upvote their favourites. I’m sure there must be a less clunky way to do this, though. Can I check if you have any ideas, please?
Creating a spreadsheet? You can have two columns (media title and a number) and ask people to increment the number by one if they found something helpful. This could be better than a survey—it’s faster to go through and easier to update.
Did the spreadsheet idea survive? Because maybe we should add another column with the total number of people who saw each movie/book; this would be useful to distinguish works that correlate with being an EA (e.g., TLYCS book) from things everyone saw, but we associate with our feelings (like LOTR).
Thanks, that doc of Entertainment for EA Conversations looks great! Looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while but I added something new. I like that it has a quick description of each item on there.
I like the idea here a great deal, but I expect there’s going to be a lot of variation in what creates what effect in whom. I wonder if there’s better ways to come up with aggregate recommendations, so we can find out what seems to be consistent in its EA appeal, vs. what’s idiosyncratic
Hi Ben, sorry for the double-reply.
It just occurred to me that I could make a survey in something like SurveyMonkey and link to it in the post, then periodically update the rankings in here if a decent number of people have voted.
Any thoughts?
Hi Ben, thanks for your comment.
I love your idea of aggregate recommendations and would be very interested in doing a version where that kind of functionality is possible. Off the top of my head, I can only think of posting each item in the list as an individual comment in here so people can upvote their favourites. I’m sure there must be a less clunky way to do this, though. Can I check if you have any ideas, please?
Creating a spreadsheet? You can have two columns (media title and a number) and ask people to increment the number by one if they found something helpful. This could be better than a survey—it’s faster to go through and easier to update.
Did the spreadsheet idea survive? Because maybe we should add another column with the total number of people who saw each movie/book; this would be useful to distinguish works that correlate with being an EA (e.g., TLYCS book) from things everyone saw, but we associate with our feelings (like LOTR).
I don’t think anyone would have access to that information, but a document with suggestions from a variety of people exists here.
Thanks, that doc of Entertainment for EA Conversations looks great! Looks like it hasn’t been updated in a while but I added something new. I like that it has a quick description of each item on there.