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Originally Posted by pwalker8
You also have a lot of inference there.
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As do you. You are inferring, without any apparent basis, that:
- Amazon could not infer from your browsing and buying habits that you are relatively price indifferent. Or that they even care about the price elasticity of single customers, as opposed to large demographic groups.
- That every single mistaken click will in some way totally invalidate Amazon's data. I am quite sure that Amazon fully expects individual browsing data to be very 'noisy' from a statistical point of view, and therefore only interesting and useful in large sample sets.
- That asking buyers questions will reveal more about their buying habits than about the buying habits they think they should have. Finding out what actually makes them put down their money is almost certainly more useful.