It’s clear that if there is a crisis in Australia, it affects both men and women, boys and girls. So what can be done to boost reading?
  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    since His Lordship’s ADHD diagnosis he’s stopped fighting himself and now chiefly audiobooks. His “reading” intake has upped significantly.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • Nath@aussie.zoneMEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago
        1. Ralph Lister’s Skyhold series - Really great fun
        2. 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!
        3. Kevin J Anderson’s Hidden Empire series. A really interesting concept of an antagonist alien species. I liked them.
        4. 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.
        5. Currently reading Naomi Novik’s Telemere series and I’m 100% hooked. It’s more dragons, but this time set in the Napolionic wars.
  • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
    61·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      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

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        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.

      • cabb@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        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.

  • Ascend910@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    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

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          3·
          6 days ago

          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.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          5 days ago

          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.

          • Nath@aussie.zoneMEnglish
            3·
            5 days ago

            Ironically, your local library. If you don’t already have a membership, change that.

            The ABC listen app also has some audiobooks.

            • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              4 days ago

              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.