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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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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