Not really a surprise, because humans are inconsistent & we are easily influenced (see: advertising). All of which makes a mockery of the 100 point scoring system.
I tend to treat wine ratings by wine judges like movie ratings by critics: it helps to know who did the rating & whether your tastes are similar or polar opposites to theirs.
Price and ease is all that really matters for most people, as regards buying products. People can talk all day long about supporting independent record/book/game stores, but most of them are lying through their teeth and are treating the shop as a social space while scoping out prices... but if a game is £5 on Steam, which I'm logged into anyway a lot of the time and £10 in the shop that's in danger of going out of business... or if the book is £15 on Amazon and delivered in a couple of days or £25 in a local bookstore that would have to order it in for me specially... well, I know who's going to get my money.
Amazon does so well because it's cheap, and has a great range of books. Yes, it's not your local store and yes, they take their cut and yes, it's in a position to leverage relationships in unpleasant ways, but when people talk about the halcyon days of local bookshops and whatever, they're generally forgetting that they went to those shops because they didn't have a choice. If all the people who talked about how local shops or physical stores in general should be saved in the face of supermarkets or retail giants like Amazon & Steam actually shopped in those stores, the situation wouldn't be like it is.
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I ... think it means peak proportion?
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Not really a surprise, because humans are inconsistent & we are easily influenced (see: advertising). All of which makes a mockery of the 100 point scoring system.
I tend to treat wine ratings by wine judges like movie ratings by critics: it helps to know who did the rating & whether your tastes are similar or polar opposites to theirs.
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Amazon does so well because it's cheap, and has a great range of books. Yes, it's not your local store and yes, they take their cut and yes, it's in a position to leverage relationships in unpleasant ways, but when people talk about the halcyon days of local bookshops and whatever, they're generally forgetting that they went to those shops because they didn't have a choice. If all the people who talked about how local shops or physical stores in general should be saved in the face of supermarkets or retail giants like Amazon & Steam actually shopped in those stores, the situation wouldn't be like it is.