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Dr. Dave questions technology reviews that seem to give every tested product a score between roughly 8.4 and 8.7. Evil Steve agrees that a scale should actually be used: if nothing is allowed to be poor or excellent, every product merely becomes “kind of pretty good.”

1:51 · Consulting Philosophy

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