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I was so confused by this yesterday. I want to see the number of ratings compared to the average rating. That's how I know if a large number of people have tested this product and reviewed it properly. This system seems designed to hide that. You have to open every product to see that info.

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It reminded me how important information design is.

Amazon has an average number of stars there, but it's no longer visually shown - instead, just a number. I have relied on the stars being "filled up" for so long that it now felt like every product was basically the same: a single, lone star. It was so harder to get an at-a-glance feeling of which products were good and which not-so-good.

And unforutnately, that's probably Amazon's goal.

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