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Pandora is a success!

This graph shows my subjects’ reactions to each of the five songs that Pandora selected. Overall, all five of my subjects enjoyed the song selections made by the website. I purposely chose to include one of my sisters in this survey because she is one of the most picky control freaks I have ever encountered. She was Subject 2. She was the only one that didn’t like the fact that someone else was choosing her music for her because of the lack of control. My sister completely disagreed with her second song choice, yet that didn't affect the rest of her Pandora experience. As seen in the red bars, she enjoyed the rest of the songs selected. The subjects found Pandora as a great site. It was something they found amazing yet slightly weird; that a computer selects music they think they would enjoy based on the selection of one artist. I found that since the subjects enjoyed the song selections, they were more likely to have a more positive feeling towards Pandora. The outlier, my sister, didn’t enjoy one of the five song choices, yet still agreed that Pandora was relatively accurate. Pandora was a success and they have all mentioned more use of it in the future.

 

 
 
 
 
 

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