According to our highly scientific Adjusted Sales Rank table, the following objects were the 25 most significant of our experiment. Let’s consider these significant objects visually — i.e., without mentioning which authors wrote which stories, and without reference to the stories. What do you see here, readers? Is there something inherently more significant about these objects than the other 75?
Click here to view a single table containing all our experimental data, and links to every post in which analysis of this data has been offered.
1. Russian figure
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2. Indian Maiden
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3. Wooden Animal
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4. “Hawk” Ashtray
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5. Pink Horse
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6. Metal Boot
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7. “4” Tile
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8. Cape Cod Shoe.
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9. Duck Tray
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10. Mallet
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11. Fish Spoons
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12. Fake Banana
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13. Missouri Shotglass
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13. [tie] Cow Vase
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15. Kneeling Man Figurine
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16. Rhino Figurine
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17. Rainbow Sand Animal
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18. Meat Thermometer
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18. [tie] Idol
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20. Felt Mouse
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21. Bird Figurine
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22. Ziggy Heart
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23. Geisha Bobblehead
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23. [tie] BBQ Sauce Jar
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25. Ireland Cow Plate
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About the author:
Joshua Glenn
Joshua Glenn is a Boston, Mass.-based writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst. He's cofounder of HiLobrow (named by TIME one of the Best Blogs of 2010), Significant Objects, and Semionaut. He's been a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Observer (London), Feed.com, and the Idler; he's toiled as a magazine, website, and newspaper editor; and he's authored and edited Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s he published the seminal intellectual/pop culture zine Hermenaut.
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