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Re:Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on profi... by JackFr on Thursday October 18, 2018 @12:54PM (#18249948)
On top of that, the factor under consideration was self-reported:

'Respondents, who ranged in age from 25 to 65, were asked to estimate how many books were in their house when they were 16 years old.'

It's very likely that avid readers will overreport the books, while reluctant readers are likely to underreport.

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Re:Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on profi... by Izkata on Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:46PM (#18250422)
And then there's those of us where the metric is invalid anyway because we checked them out from the library instead, having a different set of books every week.
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