Was going to read this article, then realised I'm a man.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2025
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The main thing is the little black lines – the “confidence interval” – a statistical measure of uncertainty that can be used when showing the average value of data from a survey (or other type of research).
And what this means, which I have confirmed with the ABS, is that the reading rates are statistically the same for males and females within all generations with the exception of gen X.
Is this correct? I haven't studied statistics since high school so I am completely clueless, but it doesn't make sense based on my rudimentary understanding of what a confidence interval is supposed to do. The confidence intervals overlap, but they are not identical. Doesn't that mean that reading rates could be statistically the same, but not that they are statistically the same?
Anyway, I also found it interesting that men read more magazines than women now too, considering it was historically the other way around and that many men actually believed its existence as a societal norm was an example of their superior rational minds.
Yes, it means could be the same, not are the same. It does mean they are confident (95% confident, I assume, I'm not clicking through to the study) that the rates are different for men and women in Gen X
It does mean they are confident that the rates are different for men and women in Gen X
Umm, surely not? If the confidence intervals overlap it means that they are not confident that the rates are different, doesn't it? Of course, it also does not mean that they can say they are confident that the reading rates are the same.
So the statistically sound way of saying it is that the null hypothesis is that reading rates are the same, and their study has failed to reject the null hypothesis.
Gen X is the only category for which the CIs don't overlap at all
Oh right I see, sorry.
If you want to be precise, overlapping intervals mean that we lack evidence to assert that the means are statistically different for our chosen confidence level. This is often simplified to the statement that they are statistically the same.
since His Lordship's ADHD diagnosis he's stopped fighting himself and now chiefly audiobooks. His "reading" intake has upped significantly.
I read 23 books so far this year. I'm doing my part.
Read 100 last year and at 25 now this year. Lower now since no longer have a job that let's me read.
But I have listen to 25 so far of audiobooks, which is beating last years count of 24 total.
I managed 55 last year and I don't know how I did that.
One page at a time. Just like writing.
What have you read if you don't mind telling us.
- Ralph Lister's Skyhold series - Really great fun
- Devoured all of Honor Harrington by David Weber in about 3 months. It was all I could do not to just start them again I wanted more!
- Kevin J Anderson's Hidden Empire series. A really interesting concept of an antagonist alien species. I liked them.
- Julie Kagawa's Talon books - a fun bit of Urban Fantasy about dragons that shape shift into human form and try to live among us. I'm probably not its target demographic (but I like middle school and teen books more than I'm probably meant to), but I'd read these again.
- Currently reading Naomi Novik's Telemere series and I'm 100% hooked. It's more dragons, but this time set in the Napolionic wars.
That Everything is Tuberculosis is on my wishlist. How was it?
I gave it 1 star because it was so damn boring. I don't usually read nonfiction and this book reminded me why. So if you like nonfiction give it a try.
I do but has to keep my interest. I plan on doing that.
Tl:dr?
I stopped going to the library to read physical books because I am too lazy to travel. I do read magazines and reseach papers off libgen tho
I read way more ebooks than paper books. The convenience, portability, low light control, and text size manipulation are big wins with ebooks over paper. There's also simply tons of ebooks available from public libraries.
I'm something of an audio book guy, so I can "read" while also doing mindless household chores like folding laundry or loading the dishwasher.
This is where I've ended up apart from the articles I read and the very very occasional ebook. The only issue I have is sometimes I can't handle the narrators style or voice and so I can't get into the book, even if I really want to.
Also if the book is set in Sydney, Australia maybe hire a local of the country to narrate it Amazon. FFS who wants to listen to a yank narrating an Australian character.
Yanks want to hear Australian characters being voiced by Yanks.
An Aussie character, voiced by an Aussie, will be heard as British by a Yank.
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Damn Americans
Where do you get audiobooks? I've only once tried to listen to an audiobook since giving up on Audible (because Amazon is fucking evil, and somehow Audible manages to add on its own layer of evil on top of that of its parent company), and I ended up with a copy that seemed to just randomly skip large parts of the text. Not an abridged copy, it would just skip paragraphs at a time, with no way to keep up on the story. That was a copy through my library.
Ironically, your local library. If you don't already have a membership, change that.
The ABC listen app also has some audiobooks.
Yeah as I said, I have already used my local library's audiobook service. I probably just happened to grab the one book that they had a dud copy of or something.
I'm reading right now. Ohh, you mean books? I plead the fifth.
The fifth what?
THE FIFTH!!!
A lot of Australians (and this is an Australian Lemmy instance) might not know what you mean.
Fair point. I rarely pay attention to the instance.
Fifth amendment of the US constitution. It's the right to not self-incriminate. i.e. pleading the fifth means you're not going to answer a question or in this context, not provide relevant information.
It's not just an Australian instance, this is an Australian community lol
We need to bring back playboy!
@MantisToboggon "I only buy it for the articles!"😉 @maniacalmanicmania
Ever read a Playboy magazine? Without any exaggeration or sarcasm, those articles were often really good!
@maniacalmanicmania I can say that my OH has increased his amount of reading in the past two years.
I am very impressed that a hydroxyl group can read at all, let alone increase their amount of reading!