News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books. Parent comment

Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by gnclmorais on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:34PM (#19117233)
Quality assessment is not necessarily the same as popularity, surely.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by maceurt on Friday February 08, 2019 @01:55PM (#19117483)
Most people rate books not based on rather they are good books, but rather if they enjoyed the books and believed in what it was saying. Furthermore, there is a certain demographic of people who uses and rates nonfiction books on goodreads, which will skew the rating.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rules for Choosing Nonfiction Books by andrepd on Friday February 08, 2019 @02:12PM (#19117642)
In an online forum like goodreads (ditto imdb, etc) it most defnitely is.
[ Parent | on HN ]