How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by ocfnash on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @11:07AM (#15132727)

I think this comment would be improved by removal of the word "Chinese".

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by coldtea on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @11:49AM (#15133135)

Would it be more accurate though?

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by ocfnash on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:04PM (#15133286)

I don't know; no doubt we could debate the point at length.

Nevertheless I stand by my original remark. IMHO the conflation of "Chinese" with "cheap crap" is:

  * Not relevant

  * Debatable / Subjective 

  * Divisive

and thus distracts attention from the actual point being made.

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by kstenerud on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:40PM (#15134215)

Meh.

China today makes the lion's share of cheap crap. Before that it was Korea. Before that it was Japan. Next will probably be Bangladesh. Just follow where garment manufacturers go and you'll see the pattern.

They key to selling more cheap crap in this day and age is to game the ratings systems as inexpensively as possible, thus the Amazon one-fake-5-star-review problem.

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by stordoff on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @12:37PM (#15133577)

FWIW, in this specific case, part of the problem can be that items are shipped from China (so longer lead times etc.).

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