It depends on what you hope to get out of the rating system. Are you doing it for more accurate personal recommendations or for being a reliable recommender of books to others? Or, for weighing in on what books are truly great and truly bad whether you or even most people would personally enjoyed them or not.

As for me, I use it for accurate personal recommendations. I have no problem giving low ratings to books even if I recognize they're well written or of some importance. Also, there's a "not interested" option in Good Reads' recommendation feature for books that I already know aren't my cup of tea.

See also discrimination. A business can have a pattern of discrimination due to institutionalized policies and practices and not because any one individual is making a conscious, nefarious decision to discriminate against a protected class

It should be, if there's a pattern of it. The hospital admitted they coded it as a treatment of a fracture rather than a stabilizing splint. The patient didn't receive treatment of the fracture until the following day at a different, unaffiliated provider.

Shah received a letter from the hospital dated May 27 of this year, saying it had reviewed the records and discovered the bill was inappropriately coded: The hospital should have used the code for a splint, not a treatment. A month later, Shah got a new bill with a patient balance of $1,214.91 — $2,100 less than the original balance.

There should be ongoing audits, ratings, and fines for every hospital and private practice. The rating would need to be posted publicly like restaurant inspection scores.

If you find a guy willing and able to squeeze into them, they're called Underwater Demolition Team (UDT) shorts and they're still made.

They're models in the 1960s.