A hypothetical
Feb. 13th, 2007 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollConsider, just for the sake of argument, the possibility that the material that appeals to editors is different from the material that appeals to readers. How would one go about testing this?
There's at least three places where this could go off the rails: it assumes editors as a group have similar tastes, it assumes readers as a group have similar tastes [1] and it assumes the two groups have dissimilar tastes.
1: For example, I like the fiction of Brian Stableford but Ian Braidwood likes the fiction of Brian Stableford _more_ and we've had at least one heated argument over this. You couldn't buy that lack of unanimity.
There's at least three places where this could go off the rails: it assumes editors as a group have similar tastes, it assumes readers as a group have similar tastes [1] and it assumes the two groups have dissimilar tastes.
1: For example, I like the fiction of Brian Stableford but Ian Braidwood likes the fiction of Brian Stableford _more_ and we've had at least one heated argument over this. You couldn't buy that lack of unanimity.
