On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 08:20:12 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote:

Well, I'd like to know more...
My observation on reading many of the reviews is that the review
posted with a particular drive, for example, isn't really about that
particular model drive at all. Sometimes this is pretty clear, but
often it seems obscured. Did you happen to notice similar instances?
IIRC, I've seen that in reviews on both Amazon and Newegg.

I tend favor NewEgg, rather once did, as it commanded a premier niche
in hardware supplies. The customer may have been more apt to reflect
it over an HTML selection of some 90 entry reviews, Amazon limits to
perhaps a dozen. Amazon then largely, among no doubt other factors,
negated NewEgg's former domination of technology sales.

Although the prices are near parity, NewEgg changed to require
customers to pay a shipping return in the event the purchase is
unsatisfactory.

Hence for 200 NewEgg reviews, often exhibiting total non-parity, the
same product on Amazon may have 8000 reviews. Can anything, Charlie,
really be clearer than domination from a greatest mass opinion, then
limited to a perspective of a single instance of ten posts linked to
the HTML equivalent to "turn the page"? Of course it can. But it's
going to take better eyes and patience to drill them for relevance I
can provide.

I was looking at a blender on Amazon. Not the two $500 units, the
classy ones with meat in numbers of manufacturer's coveting positive
reviews. This one had only 100 reviews, all mostly positive, and 100
more than a competitive but lesser-regarded brand may hold. And all
of them, highly and very much so, were shills.

Indicators for interpolation and abstracts, short of any science of
actual statistics, yes, such is possible. Asking for 'clarity',
however, is another matter. It's the casino Amazon built, where you
play by Amazon rules on Amazon time. It's also a part of a house,
Amazon built, where the National Security Agency stores its Top Secret
Data, on Amazon cloud services.