The results from Valdis Krebs’ analy­sis of polit­i­cal books bought from Ama­zon is fascinating.

Two groups typ­i­cally emerge from the data: peo­ple who read lib­er­ally ori­ented books and peo­ple who read con­ser­v­a­tively ori­ented books with a cou­ple of books that both groups read. He ran his analy­sis again a few days ago and found not two groups but three — roughly: 1) pro-Obama, 2) anti-Bush, and 3) con­ser­v­a­tive — and no books that the groups read in common.

It could also be an impor­tant resource for ‘check­ing’ on our read­ing habits. Surely, if we find our­selves read­ing books exclu­sively from one camp we would be effec­tively indoc­tri­nat­ing our­selves: read­ing our way to ignorance?

via Kot­tke