How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by bllguo on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:41PM (#15136287)

unfortunately sample sizes will probably decrease drastically when you're looking at the subset of people who rated 4 specific games, or other such cases

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by fnordian_slip on Thursday August 31, 2017 @06:36AM (#15139385)

Yes, that alone is probably enough to make any system like that come with a huge false-positive rate.

I myself only rarely post a review, and I could easily see how - in a vacuum - my star ratings might look like those of a bot.

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