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by gnclmorais 2688 days ago
Quality assessment is not necessarily the same as popularity, surely.
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Most people rate books not based on rather they are good books, but rather if they enjoyed the books and believed in what it was saying. Furthermore, there is a certain demographic of people who uses and rates nonfiction books on goodreads, which will skew the rating.
In an online forum like goodreads (ditto imdb, etc) it most defnitely is.