I haven't noticed it either, but then I also tend not to pay too much attention so that's not worth so much!
Rob P wrote:I've not had this problem, but I have noticed that Amazon's 3rd party second hand book rating of very good is well below what you would expect very good to mean.
I don't know if anyone else caught this, but it seems somewhat relevant: Check out @YouGov’s Tweet:
https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/10470 ... 20065?s=09Couple to that the notion that many companies viewed anything less than a 7/10 as a bad review, even when their scales note a 5 as average.
It's into economics territory - we're extremely two-faced, hypocritical creatures on an intellectual level. Our statement about how much we'll pay for something massively misleads compared to what we'll actually pay for something when presented with it.
Almost as if you can't take us (as a species) at our word.
Those words included...
