Survey Says: You Stink [Quantifying The Unquantifiable]

Remember in Dead Poets Society where they try to analyze poetry via graph and then Robin "O Captain My Captain" Williams tells them to rip up their books and then Eric Foreman's dad, Clarence Boddicker, makes House's friend kill himself? Well, people keep trying to quantify musical quality a la J. Evans Pritchard, Ph. D., with varied results. On one hand, you have Pandora, which uses its Music Genome Project to match up artists with similar artists based on a few hundred fairly objective measu...

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