Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)
by bo1024 on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @02:53PM
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> Math challenge: is there a way of combining the desirable properties mentioned in the post with the property of honesty? I suspect there is but I haven't tried it.
The suggested method seems to be asking for binary responses (like/dislike), then aggregating them with the confidence-bound formula. This should be truthful in, e.g., a model where users who like it want to maximize the score and users who dislike it want to minimize the score.
The suggested method seems to be asking for binary responses (like/dislike), then aggregating them with the confidence-bound formula. This should be truthful in, e.g., a model where users who like it want to maximize the score and users who dislike it want to minimize the score.