Which Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?
ODYSSEY TESTResults through July 21, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. ETWhich Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?We hid the names and asked readers to choose between eight English translations. This report covers the first 685 completed blind tests across 8,043 head-to-head choices.Want to choose before you see the results?The blind test takes about three minutes.Take the test685total ballots8translations8,043head-to-heads1,989lowest exposure Which translation won?Finding: Fagles led this test.
- ▪ODYSSEY TESTResults through July 21, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.
- ▪ETWhich Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?We hid the names and asked readers to choose between eight English translations.
- ▪This report covers the first 685 completed blind tests across 8,043 head-to-head choices.Want to choose before you see the results?The blind test takes about three minutes.Take the test685total ballots8translations8,043head-to-heads1,989low
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| Original publisher | Scrivium |
| Canonical URL | https://homer.scrivium.com/report/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:19:26 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-24T02:29:49.591Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-24T02:29:49.591Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | drMlhenOMM9W |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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ODYSSEY TESTResults through July 21, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. ETWhich Odyssey translation wins a blind reading test?We hid the names and asked readers to choose between eight English translations. This report covers the first 685 completed blind tests across 8,043 head-to-head choices.Want to choose before you see the results?The blind test takes about three minutes.Take the test685total ballots8translations8,043head-to-heads1,989lowest exposure Which translation won?Finding: Fagles led this test. Robert Fagles’s Penguin translation ranked first among the eight tested translations in the 674-ballot published analytical cohort. It led the raw results, the regularized pairwise model, the scene-adjusted model, and all 50,000 whole-ballot bootstrap resamples.
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