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Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by t-writescode on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:49PM (#22260749)
Do you have statistics on that? I’m not sure I believe you, given Amazon ratings seem to have quite a broad range, so the pattern is established.

edit: specifically, that people only give 1 or 5 stars

Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by ixwt on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:35PM (#22261199)
No, it's anecdata. A lot of stuff I see tends to have a large amount of 5s and 1s. There is often 2-4s, but the amount is very often less than 5s or 1s.

It's mostly just looking at trends. A few things I've purchased from Amazon come with a little advertising slip that says "if this product is anything less than 5 stars, let us know what we can do to make it better!" I've seen plenty of stories from people complaining that their less than 5 star reviews got removed for X reason (often because it's "dishonest").

Maybe that'll be my next learning exercise: scraping the count of reviews from Amazon to support this hypothesis.

Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by gknoy on Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:19PM (#22261512)
It might be that people are less motivated to take the effort to rate something if it was "meh, okay" -- whereas a 1 or 5 star rating is something you might want others to know about, so they can see/avoid the show.