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The Peril of Small Sample Sizes

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

We’ve noticed that customers who have expressed interest in The Goth Box also ordered An All-Star Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

My head hurts.

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4 Responses to “The Peril of Small Sample Sizes”

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    April 10th, 2007 at 11:23 am Nashville is Talking » Nu-Uh, You’re Lying Says:

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    April 10th, 2007 at 12:29 pm Lynnster Says:

    Oh…. that’s just WRONG. Haha.

    Usually Amazon’s recommendations aren’t too bad off… something tells me they haven’t sold that many of the Goth collection to have come up with that, heh.

    I have lately started marking stuff as a gift that will be a gift, even though it’s being sent to me, ‘cos I’ve gotten tired of seeing Jimmy Buffett (mother) and Banarama (brother-in-law) and the like in my personal recommendations…

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    April 10th, 2007 at 1:16 pm CeeElCee Says:

    I believe they left out a few words:

    “We’ve noticed that BOTH OF THE customers who have expressed interest in The Goth Box also ordered An All-Star Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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    April 10th, 2007 at 1:47 pm Jon Says:

    Yeah, they usually do pretty well on the actual ‘recommendations’ page, but the promotional emails usually seem to be much more of a stretch. I figure it’s a “here’s the product we’re pimping, now who can we remotely shop this thing to?” approach. But this was by far the most bizzare example I’ve ever seen.

    CeeElCee: yeah that was how I figured it, but then even a two out of two match shocks the hell out of me!

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