[jkrause314]

Another analysis I'd like to see is how many songs people skip in a row. When I skip a song I end up skipping a bunch of songs until I find just the right one that I want to listen to at that moment, and I speculate that most of the quick skips come in these sorts of runs. If that's true, then it'd be interesting to try and figure out what properties the songs users end up on have as compared to the ones that they skip over.

[Grue3]

At first I was surprised skip rate was so high, because I couldn't imagine somebody using a service where they skip every other song, but your observation explains this nicely. Even for my carefully selected music library, I sometimes burst-skip a bunch of songs, which would undoubtedly taint my skip statistics.