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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @05:57PM (#15136437)
Numeric ratings are GIGO anyway, since cultural differences in how people map satisfaction to star ratings mean that the same number of people with the same degrees of preference for your product can produce a near-infinite array of different sets of preference ranking simply depending on how preferences are distributed among subcultures.

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