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There's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.
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"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city."
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>
Wasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.
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[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping."
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I just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''
Then this happened. Now we're here.
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[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here."
] |
>
There are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.
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[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here."
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That was me, sorry everyone.
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[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it."
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Every time I hear about "we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.
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[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone."
] |
>
It takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will."
] |
>
It was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch."
] |
>
When a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast"
] |
>
Especially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong."
] |
>
They must be talking about India, because China’s emissions are higher.
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B."
] |
>
Corporations and the military are the biggest polluters and no amount of nickel and diming the poor for plastic bags at the grocery store is going to change that.
We are doing our part, corporations and the military need to do theirs. Could start with getting rid of burn pits
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nThey must be talking about India, because China’s emissions are higher."
] |
>
Let's ignore the military for a sec - why does industry have such high carbon emissions?
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nThey must be talking about India, because China’s emissions are higher.",
">\n\nCorporations and the military are the biggest polluters and no amount of nickel and diming the poor for plastic bags at the grocery store is going to change that. \nWe are doing our part, corporations and the military need to do theirs. Could start with getting rid of burn pits"
] |
>
I'm here before you start getting downvoted. People are going to downvote you because your question is something that is considered general knowledge.
Industries make things that they sell to us. The way they make these things that they sell to us is not responsible, and creates a lot of waste. Many of the machines they use work in ways that dump carbon into the air, or rely on electricity that is obtained through ways that dump carbon into the air.
It's a complex answer that you would need to learn about by reading lots of news stories of the past 50 years, that explain decisions industries have taken to be able to make more and more money with less and less employees.
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nThey must be talking about India, because China’s emissions are higher.",
">\n\nCorporations and the military are the biggest polluters and no amount of nickel and diming the poor for plastic bags at the grocery store is going to change that. \nWe are doing our part, corporations and the military need to do theirs. Could start with getting rid of burn pits",
">\n\nLet's ignore the military for a sec - why does industry have such high carbon emissions?"
] |
>
Yes but the rate is slowing
|
[
"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nThey must be talking about India, because China’s emissions are higher.",
">\n\nCorporations and the military are the biggest polluters and no amount of nickel and diming the poor for plastic bags at the grocery store is going to change that. \nWe are doing our part, corporations and the military need to do theirs. Could start with getting rid of burn pits",
">\n\nLet's ignore the military for a sec - why does industry have such high carbon emissions?",
">\n\nI'm here before you start getting downvoted. People are going to downvote you because your question is something that is considered general knowledge. \nIndustries make things that they sell to us. The way they make these things that they sell to us is not responsible, and creates a lot of waste. Many of the machines they use work in ways that dump carbon into the air, or rely on electricity that is obtained through ways that dump carbon into the air. \nIt's a complex answer that you would need to learn about by reading lots of news stories of the past 50 years, that explain decisions industries have taken to be able to make more and more money with less and less employees."
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Gosh, and after all these decades of doing absolutely nothing?
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"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nThey must be talking about India, because China’s emissions are higher.",
">\n\nCorporations and the military are the biggest polluters and no amount of nickel and diming the poor for plastic bags at the grocery store is going to change that. \nWe are doing our part, corporations and the military need to do theirs. Could start with getting rid of burn pits",
">\n\nLet's ignore the military for a sec - why does industry have such high carbon emissions?",
">\n\nI'm here before you start getting downvoted. People are going to downvote you because your question is something that is considered general knowledge. \nIndustries make things that they sell to us. The way they make these things that they sell to us is not responsible, and creates a lot of waste. Many of the machines they use work in ways that dump carbon into the air, or rely on electricity that is obtained through ways that dump carbon into the air. \nIt's a complex answer that you would need to learn about by reading lots of news stories of the past 50 years, that explain decisions industries have taken to be able to make more and more money with less and less employees.",
">\n\nYes but the rate is slowing"
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"It's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nThat’s because corporations can do essentially whatever the fuck they want while we are asked to sacrifice",
">\n\nYou don’t have to sacrifice, you just need to make different choices and deprive the biggest polluters of revenue. If you just pass the buck and say it is the corporations doing this then you’re missing the opportunity to teach them what it means to lose customers. Just making the effort is what it takes, you don’t even need to achieve much but it is sending a message. Also, don’t fall for greenwashing. Highly recommend watching Not Just Bikes on YouTube along with Climate Town.",
">\n\nThe issue is the supply chain so complex, is being updated all the time, and companies have a strong incentive to obfuscate it.\nThere needs to be minimum standards and regulator for this.",
">\n\nThey might obfuscate it from you as an individual, but if you pay attention when experts say how to reduce your footprint, you can still act responsibly.\nThe car companies lied about emissions by using 'defeat devices', but transit users were ahead of the game.",
">\n\nNo I meant more like 5 products on a shelf - doing the insane research into cost, environment cost at use, environment cost at creation, health risks, human rights in production, while bearing in mind that shop could close or product gets discontinued or new research ala asbestos.\nIt’s a lot to keep track of for every product in your life.",
">\n\nThere's a ton you can do to reduce your carbon consumption that isn't tied to consumer goods. Diet, transportation choices, even your day to day habits like how warm/cool you keep your house, gardening/landscaping, etc. \nBut there is a good rule of thumb for consumer goods too- if you can buy it used or even better reuse/refurbish what you already have, you'll come out ahead.",
">\n\nI fully agree, I just mean Brand A detergent vs Brand B detergent type stuff",
">\n\nIt's almost like 75% of pollution has to do with industry practices and not at all about the consumer habits of the working class.",
">\n\nDude, drive a fucking bicycle and not a car. So the one percenters can have their manicured mansions, private yatchs and jets, and fucking slaves like us...\nAnti-trust laws haven't been ignored, they've been raped, lol",
">\n\nYou could also ride a bicycle because it saves you thousands of dollars per year, gets you additional exercise that you otherwise spend money on at the gym, and because every car taken off the road statistically makes everyone else safer. As a bonus, it reduces our carbon footprint.",
">\n\nYeah, those of us with 30+ mile commutes sometimes in hurricanes can totally ride a bike to work.",
">\n\nYeah, and I was clearly saying that you, specifically, should ride a bike to work. More than half of all trips made are under 6 miles, which, as long as the infrastructure is safe enough for you to ride, is an ideal candidate for replacing the trip with a bike.",
">\n\nI was being somewhat sarcastic in my response but I actually take public transportation because it's an option. I know a shit ton of other people who don't have any option for their jobs but to travel by cars. The biggest problem surrounding transportation is city design and management, and not specifically personal choice. If you can afford to live near your workplace and ride a bike then it's great, but at least in my city the majority of people can't live close to where they work for a variety of reasons.",
">\n\nLikewise, I know a shit ton of people who think they need a car but don't. In the NYC subreddit, someone mentioned my neighborhood as one where living without a car is a \"hard sell\", yet I haven't owned one since well before I moved here, and it's perhaps the easiest place to live car free out of anywhere I've lived before.",
">\n\nI live in Houston which to me is like a slightly smaller version of Los Angeles if it were in a swamp instead of the desert, so while I'm fortunate enough to leverage some public transportation for my commute, it's not feasible for most of my other transportation needs. I can ride my bike to a few fast food places, a gas station, etc. but it's dangerous to go much further than that, including the nearest grocery store. I have kids so the schools are probably the biggest factor in where I can choose to live, otherwise I'd be back in a more dense portion of the city.",
">\n\nThere's tons of underground coal burning uncontrolably in Centralia PA. That can't be helping.",
">\n\nWasn't expecting a Centralia mine fire reference here.",
">\n\nI just heard about it yesterday and thought ''well that's a thing with the carbon and the glaciers and whatnot.''\nThen this happened. Now we're here.",
">\n\nThere are certainly a few steaming spots there but the raging inferno with smoke pouring out of the ground all over the area that that you seem to be imagining isn’t the case. That fire’s contribution to carbon release at this point is minimal compared to the emissions of all the folks who drive out there to try and look for it.",
">\n\nThat was me, sorry everyone.",
">\n\nEvery time I hear about \"we have so much time to keep it under 1.5C warming\" I just laugh. We're going to hit 3.5C by the end of this century assuming we continue at the current rate. Which we will.",
">\n\nIt takes a while to stop a freight train. It's not like flipping a switch.",
">\n\nIt was going down considerably the last few years and now it's going back up fast",
">\n\nWhen a country of 300 million produce more carbon than a country of 1.4 billion, something is really wrong.",
">\n\nEspecially when many of the goods we purchase are manufactured in the country of 1.4B.",
">\n\nThey must be talking about India, because China’s emissions are higher.",
">\n\nCorporations and the military are the biggest polluters and no amount of nickel and diming the poor for plastic bags at the grocery store is going to change that. \nWe are doing our part, corporations and the military need to do theirs. Could start with getting rid of burn pits",
">\n\nLet's ignore the military for a sec - why does industry have such high carbon emissions?",
">\n\nI'm here before you start getting downvoted. People are going to downvote you because your question is something that is considered general knowledge. \nIndustries make things that they sell to us. The way they make these things that they sell to us is not responsible, and creates a lot of waste. Many of the machines they use work in ways that dump carbon into the air, or rely on electricity that is obtained through ways that dump carbon into the air. \nIt's a complex answer that you would need to learn about by reading lots of news stories of the past 50 years, that explain decisions industries have taken to be able to make more and more money with less and less employees.",
">\n\nYes but the rate is slowing",
">\n\nGosh, and after all these decades of doing absolutely nothing?"
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People have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.
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I make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals."
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(For an explanation of what a "showerthought" is, please read this page.)
Rule-breaking posts may result in bans.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up."
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Idk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans."
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Wow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well."
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Itt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!"
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All 2000 were given away free to review.
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size."
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Or they're bots
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review."
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Yeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots"
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No, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector"
] |
>
4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation"
] |
>
What about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo."
] |
>
Fake
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?"
] |
>
Or maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake"
] |
>
Someone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔"
] |
>
Or just due to pure stupidity.
Rating: 0 out of 5. Review: "Is top product, does everything wery goodly"
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy"
] |
>
1/5 "I don't own this product"
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\""
] |
>
5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots.
3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\""
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>
Worst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.
Plenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners."
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“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself."
] |
>
My favorite part of Amazon is: "Does this product support X?"
"Dont know, I returned mine"
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”"
] |
>
It’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.
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">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\""
] |
>
Yeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic."
] |
>
Sounds interesting.. anyone knows?
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit"
] |
>
I think it’s just called stupidity
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?"
] |
>
I make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity"
] |
>
Well... All the reviews except that one.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up."
] |
>
To be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one."
] |
>
That one was from your mom.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there."
] |
>
Nope, she was the one star.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom."
] |
>
People have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star."
] |
>
You can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals."
] |
>
Anything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc"
] |
>
What if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought."
] |
>
Usually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?"
] |
>
Think that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews."
] |
>
Ima disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise."
] |
>
We are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps"
] |
>
There’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone."
] |
>
Similarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's "good but too expensive". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price.
Bro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food."
] |
>
It's a fair critique. "Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason."
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go."
] |
>
Depends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\""
] |
>
A 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand"
] |
>
4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.
5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.
|
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk."
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especially if the 1 star review says something like:
This product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine
some people are idiots
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit."
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"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star"
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots"
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"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star."
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\""
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Also no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.
I don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.
If there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.
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[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\""
] |
>
More like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones."
] |
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I just consider 4 an actual 5.
Karen’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews."
] |
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Perfect score usually means a lie.
Most people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut."
] |
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At this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.
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[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth."
] |
>
It looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5."
] |
>
apparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies."
] |
>
Relevant xkcd
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings"
] |
>
I couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd"
] |
>
It also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot."
] |
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That is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses"
] |
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If you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then :
p = (sn+1)/(n+2)
Imagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:
p = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%
When you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously).
Not the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :
p ≈ s + 1/n
|
[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score."
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The only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n"
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Depends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host"
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I almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine."
] |
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4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review.
Good reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations.
Bad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?"
] |
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I won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague."
] |
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On a typical 1-5 star rating system, how does one go about carving up a "star" to make it 0.7?
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.",
">\n\nI won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars."
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A product has 10 ratings. Seven are 5 star and three are 4 star. The average rating would be 4.7.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.",
">\n\nI won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars.",
">\n\nOn a typical 1-5 star rating system, how does one go about carving up a \"star\" to make it 0.7?"
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Yes, I know math too. How does one "INDIVIDUALLY" rate a product 4.7 when your only choices are whole stars and not able to fractionalize them.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.",
">\n\nI won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars.",
">\n\nOn a typical 1-5 star rating system, how does one go about carving up a \"star\" to make it 0.7?",
">\n\nA product has 10 ratings. Seven are 5 star and three are 4 star. The average rating would be 4.7."
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It's not something individual
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.",
">\n\nI won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars.",
">\n\nOn a typical 1-5 star rating system, how does one go about carving up a \"star\" to make it 0.7?",
">\n\nA product has 10 ratings. Seven are 5 star and three are 4 star. The average rating would be 4.7.",
">\n\nYes, I know math too. How does one \"INDIVIDUALLY\" rate a product 4.7 when your only choices are whole stars and not able to fractionalize them."
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I guess I forgot the "/s"
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[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.",
">\n\nI won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars.",
">\n\nOn a typical 1-5 star rating system, how does one go about carving up a \"star\" to make it 0.7?",
">\n\nA product has 10 ratings. Seven are 5 star and three are 4 star. The average rating would be 4.7.",
">\n\nYes, I know math too. How does one \"INDIVIDUALLY\" rate a product 4.7 when your only choices are whole stars and not able to fractionalize them.",
">\n\nIt's not something individual"
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I'd say 1000 4.7 reviews is worse than 1000 5 star reviews.
But 1000 4.7 reviews is far better than 5 reviews all 5 stars.
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[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.",
">\n\nI won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars.",
">\n\nOn a typical 1-5 star rating system, how does one go about carving up a \"star\" to make it 0.7?",
">\n\nA product has 10 ratings. Seven are 5 star and three are 4 star. The average rating would be 4.7.",
">\n\nYes, I know math too. How does one \"INDIVIDUALLY\" rate a product 4.7 when your only choices are whole stars and not able to fractionalize them.",
">\n\nIt's not something individual",
">\n\nI guess I forgot the \"/s\""
] |
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nThis is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nIdk if i see a 5 star review i then check the review count as well.",
">\n\nWow 5 stars! Oh it has only one review and it's written by their company. 4.7 stars with 2,000 reviews? Absolutely!",
">\n\nItt: reddit discovers the concept of sample size.",
">\n\nAll 2000 were given away free to review.",
">\n\nOr they're bots",
">\n\nYeah you can't convince me all these amazon brands solely exist to be owned by amazon to be reviewed by amazon bots. That is why amazon makes so much money they make products in every sector",
">\n\nNo, Amazon makes so much money because of exploitation",
">\n\n4000 reviews on a 4.7/5 is more helpful than 10 reviews on a 5/5 imo.",
">\n\nWhat about 5/5 with 4000 reviews?",
">\n\nFake",
">\n\nOr maybe just a really really good product 🤔 🤔🤔",
">\n\nSomeone will always rate it lower than 5. Possibly due to shipping issues or defect and possibly just to be that guy",
">\n\nOr just due to pure stupidity.\nRating: 0 out of 5. Review: \"Is top product, does everything wery goodly\"",
">\n\n1/5 \"I don't own this product\"",
">\n\n5 star ratings are super fluffed with bots. \n3-4 star ratings tell the true story. 1 star ratings are usually people who got lemons or whiners.",
">\n\nWorst is Amazon who have him just one rating whereas there should be two. One for the product and one for their service.\nPlenty of reviews rating a product 1 star because amazons fulfillment of the order did not meet their expectations. No criticism of the product itself.",
">\n\n“It’s the best product I’ve ever bought but was delivered a couple minutes late. ONE STAR!”",
">\n\nMy favorite part of Amazon is: \"Does this product support X?\"\n\"Dont know, I returned mine\"",
">\n\nIt’s true because 5.0 rating with more than say 100 reviews is bought, full-stop. You could be Jesus Christ giving out free fish and bread and a random sampling of 100 people would have 10 people giving you 1 star because they’re allergic.",
">\n\nYeah, if you tell 100 people to say yes, even under threat of death, at least 3 will answer No, out of spite, joke or pure stupidity. There was a name for that, I read it recently on reddit",
">\n\nSounds interesting.. anyone knows?",
">\n\nI think it’s just called stupidity",
">\n\nI make a podcast called The Movie Bluffs, and I had this same thought when we got one 1 star review from someone who didn’t like it, which brought us down to 4.6. I had a talk with my buddy about how at least that let people know all the reviews aren’t just our friends trying to boost us up.",
">\n\nWell... All the reviews except that one.",
">\n\nTo be honest, all the reviews except two. There was a mystery 5 star in there.",
">\n\nThat one was from your mom.",
">\n\nNope, she was the one star.",
">\n\nPeople have rated it more than once or twice when the star rating is in decimals.",
">\n\nYou can get x.5 with 2 people, x.3/x.7 with 3 people etc",
">\n\nAnything over 90% I assume it's just paid reviews. If you see that ton of high, ton of low, no middle it's definitely bought.",
">\n\nWhat if it happens to be a genuinely good product with plenty of satisfied customers?",
">\n\nUsually you end up with a peak at 100% sharply dropping until around 60% then minimal occurances below. People like to complain, especially about of things out of a merchants control like shipping. Also if it's genuinely good you usually find a very large volume of typed reviews from real people not obvious bots/paid reviews.",
">\n\nThink that last bit is especially true, in-depth and detailed reviews are more reliable than a few words of shallow praise.",
">\n\nIma disagree with this one. It depends on how many reviews it has. If something has like eighteen reviews at five stars. You right. Like whatever. If a local restaurant has a thousand reviews and a full five stars, you know that mess slaps",
">\n\nWe are ignoring that situation because it's very very unlikely. Can't please everyone.",
">\n\nThere’s the authentic Chinese restaurant rule. The best ones have a lot of 5 stars for the food, and many 1 stars for shitty service. Authentic Chinatown places just have a different service model that Americans aren’t used to. PF Changs gets great rating usually. Because you know what you’re gonna get and it’s perfectly yummy. It’s just not the best food.",
">\n\nSimilarly for high enders you're going to get lots of 5 stars if it's good and like a couple of cranky people giving them 1-3 stars because it's \"good but too expensive\". They'll even mention the same things as the positive reviews but keep bringing up the price. \nBro if it's that out of your budget why did you even go.",
">\n\nIt's a fair critique. \"Same quality as Joe's Steakhouse, but they up-charge for no reason.\"",
">\n\nDepends on if you can see the review count or not. A 4.7 with 1000 reviews is more impressive than a 5.0 with 4. But a 5.0 with 100 reviews is more impressive than a 4.7 with a thousand",
">\n\nA 5.0 with 100 reviews is a company that bought 100 reviews off Amazon Turk.",
">\n\n4.7 star: ok this is a decent product with the usual amount of manufacturing issues/ idiots not using it for what it what was intended for.\n5 star: I immediately assume all ratings are paid for with free shit.",
">\n\nespecially if the 1 star review says something like:\n\nThis product was BROKEN! and I had to return it and wait for a new one which is now working fine\n\nsome people are idiots",
">\n\n\"I ordered this green product and I hate green! 1 star\"",
">\n\n\"Beautiful color. Very happy. 1 star.\"",
">\n\nAlso no negative reviews usually raises an eyebrow.\nI don't care how great your product and company is, if you're selling any significant volume, sooner or later you will commit a few fuckups that will annoy someone enough to write about it.\nIf there's no credible negatives in a large set of reviews, you're either deleting them or fabricating positive ones.",
">\n\nMore like a 4.5-star rating from 500 reviews looks better than a 5-star rating from 5 reviews.",
">\n\nI just consider 4 an actual 5.\nKaren’s 1 star review because she doesn’t understand how shipping works gets cut.",
">\n\nPerfect score usually means a lie.\nMost people love it, except for some haters who gonna hate, now, that's usually the truth.",
">\n\nAt this point I don't even bother to check the number of ratings on the products/services that have 5 stars. Unless they're written inside a bracket just after the 5.",
">\n\nIt looks better because a 5 star rating (out of 5) indicates that too few has rated it. I have yet to see a 5 star rating (or just all max rating) that very few revies.",
">\n\napparently companies can delete reviews so they could just rig their ratings",
">\n\nRelevant xkcd",
">\n\nI couldn't find a source for this, but I work in marketing and have heard from several clients that Amazon review bot companies specifically target 4.7 stars. Research shows that products between 4.0 and 4.7 stars sell best, so getting to the top end of that range is the sweet spot.",
">\n\nIt also depends on what's being reviewed. I'm a lot more skeptical of product reviews compared to restaurants and other businesses",
">\n\nThat is factually incorrect. Things that matter are the amount of ratings it takes to get the rating. A 5 star product with 2000 reviews is better then one with 10 reviews getting 4.7 stars. You can't derive anything from just the score.",
">\n\nIf you want to estimate the probability that you'll enjoy the product, you just need the success rate s (for example 4/5 stars would give s = 0.8) and the number of reviews n. Your probability is then : \np = (sn+1)/(n+2)\nImagine I have a product with a rating of 4/5 with 10 reviews, then the probability that I'll enjoy it is:\np = (0.8*10 + 1)(10+2) = 9/12 = 75%\nWhen you compare products you need to compare that probability, not the rating (you already do this subconsciously). \nNot the easiest of formulas but simple enough for this. Although if your number of reviews is big enough (n ≥ 40) you can use this instead :\np ≈ s + 1/n",
">\n\nThe only true 5/5 rating I found is Jellyfin on IOS. Absolutely 5/5 if you can properly set up your host",
">\n\nDepends where Amazon that seems odd but 5 stars on Google for a local restaurant that's fine.",
">\n\nI almost never trust a five star review. Who is ever THAT satisfied with a product?",
">\n\n4.7 and 5 star average generally say the same thing; however, for a 4.7 product you have a lot more reading to do because there’s 20 bad reviews for every good review. \nGood reviews will tell you how every function of the product will perform. This allows you to directly determine if the product suits your exact needs and expectations. \nBad reviews are: copied from another similar product, from confused customers who can’t properly derive the function of the product, from customers who weren’t happy with the delivery of the product, or incredibly vague.",
">\n\nI won't trust a product on Amazon if every reviewer gives it 5 stars.",
">\n\nOn a typical 1-5 star rating system, how does one go about carving up a \"star\" to make it 0.7?",
">\n\nA product has 10 ratings. Seven are 5 star and three are 4 star. The average rating would be 4.7.",
">\n\nYes, I know math too. How does one \"INDIVIDUALLY\" rate a product 4.7 when your only choices are whole stars and not able to fractionalize them.",
">\n\nIt's not something individual",
">\n\nI guess I forgot the \"/s\"",
">\n\nI'd say 1000 4.7 reviews is worse than 1000 5 star reviews.\nBut 1000 4.7 reviews is far better than 5 reviews all 5 stars."
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One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.
I'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.
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And this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.
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"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things."
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Also why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority
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"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge."
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If the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter.
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"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority"
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I'm just waiting for more nurses around the country to go on strike.
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"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority",
">\n\nIf the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter."
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Depends on those nurses being unionized...
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[
"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority",
">\n\nIf the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter.",
">\n\nI'm just waiting for more nurses around the country to go on strike."
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Don't need to be in a union to stroke. There are things called general strikes where just everyone stops working in solidarity of a cause.
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"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority",
">\n\nIf the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter.",
">\n\nI'm just waiting for more nurses around the country to go on strike.",
">\n\nDepends on those nurses being unionized..."
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Solidarity of a cause in a nation of rugged individuals?
The “growth” of capitalism is merely the extraction of energy from a vast underclass converted to wealth for a small upper class.
Keeping the underclass working against itself keeps it from freeing itself from the parasite of the upper class.
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[
"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority",
">\n\nIf the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter.",
">\n\nI'm just waiting for more nurses around the country to go on strike.",
">\n\nDepends on those nurses being unionized...",
">\n\nDon't need to be in a union to stroke. There are things called general strikes where just everyone stops working in solidarity of a cause."
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Looks like the picket line at Mount Sinai is getting longer than the wait time at a DMV. The nurses aren't even getting a 'sorry for the wait' bonus. Talk about a rough day at the office. But in all seriousness, this is just a symptom of the larger issue of the U.S. healthcare system's impending collapse. Who's bringing the beer to the picket line, because this is going to be a long strike
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[
"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority",
">\n\nIf the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter.",
">\n\nI'm just waiting for more nurses around the country to go on strike.",
">\n\nDepends on those nurses being unionized...",
">\n\nDon't need to be in a union to stroke. There are things called general strikes where just everyone stops working in solidarity of a cause.",
">\n\nSolidarity of a cause in a nation of rugged individuals?\nThe “growth” of capitalism is merely the extraction of energy from a vast underclass converted to wealth for a small upper class. \nKeeping the underclass working against itself keeps it from freeing itself from the parasite of the upper class."
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It's almost like this industry is so important it shouldn't be left up to private companies, and a publicly owned entity should step in to regulate costs and ensure services!! Like in literally every other country but... Madagascar!!
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"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority",
">\n\nIf the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter.",
">\n\nI'm just waiting for more nurses around the country to go on strike.",
">\n\nDepends on those nurses being unionized...",
">\n\nDon't need to be in a union to stroke. There are things called general strikes where just everyone stops working in solidarity of a cause.",
">\n\nSolidarity of a cause in a nation of rugged individuals?\nThe “growth” of capitalism is merely the extraction of energy from a vast underclass converted to wealth for a small upper class. \nKeeping the underclass working against itself keeps it from freeing itself from the parasite of the upper class.",
">\n\nLooks like the picket line at Mount Sinai is getting longer than the wait time at a DMV. The nurses aren't even getting a 'sorry for the wait' bonus. Talk about a rough day at the office. But in all seriousness, this is just a symptom of the larger issue of the U.S. healthcare system's impending collapse. Who's bringing the beer to the picket line, because this is going to be a long strike"
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But the free market will fix it! We just have to reduce government interference in hospital operations and healthcare!
/s
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"One of the most important aspects in the shift was the introduction of massive numbers of temporary workers during the pandemic which continues today. Temporary workers (typically known as Locums) are a major contribution to staffing issues. As regular hospital staff learn about the financial rewards that locum providers receive, it only leads to more individuals questioning, “why do I still work here?”.\n\nI'm shocked it wasn't sooner. Seeing someone doing the same job you are but are making 4x-7x more than you is going to make you question things.",
">\n\nAnd this is why companies of all stripes do everything they can to discourage discussions of pay: because then you and your co-workers will realize how badly you're all being fucked over, and your employer hates the idea of you being armed with that kind of knowledge.",
">\n\nAlso why they dissuade forming unions too. Unions won't allow outsiders to come in to work the same job for more pay than that of their members who have seniority",
">\n\nIf the cattle organizes, the herd can’t be led to slaughter.",
">\n\nI'm just waiting for more nurses around the country to go on strike.",
">\n\nDepends on those nurses being unionized...",
">\n\nDon't need to be in a union to stroke. There are things called general strikes where just everyone stops working in solidarity of a cause.",
">\n\nSolidarity of a cause in a nation of rugged individuals?\nThe “growth” of capitalism is merely the extraction of energy from a vast underclass converted to wealth for a small upper class. \nKeeping the underclass working against itself keeps it from freeing itself from the parasite of the upper class.",
">\n\nLooks like the picket line at Mount Sinai is getting longer than the wait time at a DMV. The nurses aren't even getting a 'sorry for the wait' bonus. Talk about a rough day at the office. But in all seriousness, this is just a symptom of the larger issue of the U.S. healthcare system's impending collapse. Who's bringing the beer to the picket line, because this is going to be a long strike",
">\n\nIt's almost like this industry is so important it shouldn't be left up to private companies, and a publicly owned entity should step in to regulate costs and ensure services!! Like in literally every other country but... Madagascar!!"
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