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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by buckminster on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:16PM (#21272050)
On Amazon UK the book has three ratings, a four star, a three star and a one star. Which are labelled 28%, 45% and 27% respectively. Wtf?
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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by jrs235 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:20PM (#21272114)
Interesting and WTF for sure. Must have rubbed some people the wrong way...

Reading it can be frightening for overachievers and people whose world view and beliefs (the upper class who need servants) requires we have people working for them otherwise their materialist and GDP/economy driven world views might cease to exist...

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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by dredmorbius on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:45PM (#21273917)
It's more that the percentages, whilst adding up, don't match.
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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by jrs235 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:44PM (#21276199)
What if it's an easter egg / joke facilitated by Amazon employees... making their calculator [perhaps only for this book] perform incorrectly... hence underachieving?
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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by dredmorbius on Thursday October 17, 2019 @11:59AM (#21283405)
Maybe it's an easter egg yolk.
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Re:Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) by rovolo on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:02PM (#21295745)
Amazon weights reviews based on the reviewer:

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-stars-ratings-calculated/

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