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Re:SICP review by Peter Norvig (2000) by philwelch on Saturday November 13, 2010 @03:24PM (#1901616)
That's more the case if you show some sort of aggregate 5 star rating on the front page, I suspect. If you look at peoples iTunes libraries they probably use 2-4 stars a lot and 1 or 5 stars more rarely. But on Amazon, people who think a book is 4 stars but see it rated as 3 stars are going to vote for 5 stars to push it up more.
Re:SICP review by Peter Norvig (2000) by eru on Saturday November 13, 2010 @05:36PM (#1901886)
They should aggregate the reviews by taking a median. That way there's no incentive to game the system.
Re:SICP review by Peter Norvig (2000) by xenophanes on Saturday November 13, 2010 @07:34PM (#1902095)
Only works if people understand there's no incentive...

Which they won't, cause math is so hard...

Re:SICP review by Peter Norvig (2000) by eru on Sunday November 14, 2010 @01:01AM (#1902657)
Only the median voter(s) would need to understand that there's no incentive.