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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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Publishers pay people to pour over statistics to see what would be optimum prices. It slightly mystifies me why people here would think they know better.
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Because they want it to be true and the echo chamber keeps telling them that publishers don't know what they are doing.
There is a lot of money to be made by pretending to be an expert and putting out estimates, especially if the real numbers are never released. You see it in financial estimates before earning calls, you see it in political polling. Heck, that's why there are still fortune tellers out there.