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I recommend the following book under a few caveats the first one being no one without their highschool diploma or G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) should read

by jrs235 7y ago

I recommend the following book under a few caveats the first one being no one without their highschool diploma or G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) should read it. The Underachiever's Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great (Funny Self-Help Book, Guide to Lowering Stress and Dealing with Perfectionism) https://amzn.to/2pvYI6b https://amzn.to/2pvYI6b It will surely pierce a lot of people's beliefs.

buckminster 7y ago
On Amazon UK the book has three ratings, a four star, a three star and a one star. Which are labelled 28%, 45% and 27% respectively. Wtf?
- jrs235 7y ago
  Interesting and WTF for sure. Must have rubbed some people the wrong way... Reading it can be frightening for overachievers and people whose world view and beliefs (the upper class who need servants) requires we have people working for them otherwise their materialist and GDP/economy driven world views might cease to exist...
  - dredmorbius 7y ago
    It's more that the percentages, whilst adding up, don't match.
    - jrs235 7y ago
      What if it's an easter egg / joke facilitated by Amazon employees... making their calculator [perhaps only for this book] perform incorrectly... hence underachieving?
      - dredmorbius 7y ago
        Maybe it's an easter egg yolk.
- rovolo 7y ago
  Amazon weights reviews based on the reviewer: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-stars-ratings-calculated/ https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-stars-ratings-calculated/
blotter_paper 7y ago
> the first one being no one without their highschool diploma or G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) should read it. Could you unpack this for me?
- p10_user 7y ago
  I suppose parent poster means that people who haven’t finished high school may take it too much at face value, and not take education seriously.
  - jrs235 7y ago
    Correct. My concern is if young folks, such as when I was in middle or high school, read this they might become too underachieving.
    - blotter_paper 7y ago
      Okay, the age at which somebody is exposed to certain media seems like a potentially valid concern. I thought you were making a statement about adults who hadn't obtained those credentials, which would be a whole other bag of worms; it's possible to attend college without a highschool diploma or equivalent, and it's also possible to achieve difficult things without either of those pieces of paper in hand.

by jrs235 7y ago

buckminster 7y ago

On Amazon UK the book has three ratings, a four star, a three star and a one star. Which are labelled 28%, 45% and 27% respectively. Wtf?

jrs235 7y ago
Interesting and WTF for sure. Must have rubbed some people the wrong way... Reading it can be frightening for overachievers and people whose world view and beliefs (the upper class who need servants) requires we have people working for them otherwise their materialist and GDP/economy driven world views might cease to exist...
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  It's more that the percentages, whilst adding up, don't match.
  - jrs235 7y ago
    What if it's an easter egg / joke facilitated by Amazon employees... making their calculator [perhaps only for this book] perform incorrectly... hence underachieving?
    - dredmorbius 7y ago
      Maybe it's an easter egg yolk.
rovolo 7y ago
Amazon weights reviews based on the reviewer: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-stars-ratings-calculated/ https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-stars-ratings-calculated/

blotter_paper 7y ago

> the first one being no one without their highschool diploma or G.E.D. (General Education Diploma) should read it. Could you unpack this for me?

p10_user 7y ago
I suppose parent poster means that people who haven’t finished high school may take it too much at face value, and not take education seriously.
- jrs235 7y ago
  Correct. My concern is if young folks, such as when I was in middle or high school, read this they might become too underachieving.
  - blotter_paper 7y ago
    Okay, the age at which somebody is exposed to certain media seems like a potentially valid concern. I thought you were making a statement about adults who hadn't obtained those credentials, which would be a whole other bag of worms; it's possible to attend college without a highschool diploma or equivalent, and it's also possible to achieve difficult things without either of those pieces of paper in hand.