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jbcohen · 10-20-2010, 08:29 AM

Ok, here is what I have been told by google.com:

This is really a bi-modal distribution (if you chart all of the reading speeds for everyone in the world who reads the chart will peak twice, referred to as a bi-modal distribution) there are some people who never read in their lives (most frequently in third world countries but alas this ocurrs quite often in the US and Europe) and there are those that can go through a 300 page book (considered to be the average length of a book by the US book publishing industry) in a week. Myself I tend to be in the 80 percentile (faster than 80% of the population) if I read one at a time or in the 40 percentile if more that one (day one its one book and day two its the other).

10-20-2010, 08:29 AM	#24
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	Ok, here is what I have been told by google.com: This is really a bi-modal distribution (if you chart all of the reading speeds for everyone in the world who reads the chart will peak twice, referred to as a bi-modal distribution) there are some people who never read in their lives (most frequently in third world countries but alas this ocurrs quite often in the US and Europe) and there are those that can go through a 300 page book (considered to be the average length of a book by the US book publishing industry) in a week. Myself I tend to be in the 80 percentile (faster than 80% of the population) if I read one at a time or in the 40 percentile if more that one (day one its one book and day two its the other).