Date: 2007-08-08 10:59 pm (UTC)
I've noticed it before. It is really depressing that Amazon are using the wrong method to generate that data (they should be comparing those proportions to the general population and only showing those which are significantly higher, basically, I forget the exact way to do it). I mean, this is very basic statistics, the error it causes is clearly obvious, and they're the largest online retailer in the world. I could understand it when the system was a new cool feature but now? Please.

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