Question: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Brilliant -- upheld by recent scholarship Product review: Charles Beard's thesis held sway for decades --and was not attacked in a significant way until after his death in 1948. Major critics were Robert E. Brown (1956) and Forrest McDonald (1958). It should be noted that Charles Beard greatly angered the liberal Establishment in the 1940s with his strong criticism re how Franklin Roosevelt manipulated the US into World War II and provoked the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor.A new book due out in July 2002 -- Robert McGuire's "To Form A More Perfect Union: A New Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution" will supposedly show that Beard was right re the Founding Fathers/Constitution and his critics were wrong.
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Question: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: Didn't work from day one. Product review: Purchased this cable to feed video to the projector on our deck. I plugged it in and the signal was wonky- picture rolled and had other artifacts. Shielding insufficiency would be my guess.Purchased a cheap 25' stereo audio cable ($9.99) from THE big box stores automotive department and it worked like a charm. AND seeing that it was a stereo cable, I got two for the price of one.Major Fail.Not worth the time to return- went straight in the trash.
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Question: You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: weird and depressing Product review: The ending was deeply disturbing. I may have to read it again to obtain maximum effect. Very well written and poetical. Don't read it before you go to bed, it leaves one with a feeling of unease, even upsetting.
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