Academic survey seeks opinions about The Hobbit: AUJ

[Aiwendil]

The hardest question: 'How many times have you read The Hobbit?'

[Galadriel55]

I believe I was around 80% through when I accidentally made the page go back, deleting everything I wrote. Lesson to be learned: do not swipe your fingers across the pad of a laptop when in the middle of a non-savable document.

I shall probably make a second attempt later this weekend, but my second attempts never turn out as good as my first ones when the first get deleted accidentally.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

The hardest question: 'How many times have you read The Hobbit?'

Exactly. I had to put in a pretty random guess. Ah well. I have just supplied them with quite inaccurate data. What a tragedy.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Exactly. I had to put in a pretty random guess. Ah well. I have just supplied them with quite inaccurate data. What a tragedy.

But it really is hard to answer when most of the time you don't read it cover-to-cover but read random bits and chapters.

[William Cloud Hicklin]

However, reading the paper by the same people that resulted from a similar study of the movie Avatar a few years ago, this isn't really about the movie but about the viewers. Copious postmodern-sociology polysyllabic handwaving.

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

this isn't really about the movie but about the viewers.

Look at their academic disciplines. Look at the title of the survey. Why expect anything different?

Copious postmodern-sociology polysyllabic handwaving.

Hardly copious. The paper is surprisingly free of sociological claptrap, especially given that the authors are arguing for a particular methodology rather than presenting their results of the Avatar survey.

For those interested, the paper can be found here.