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Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by fsckboy on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:17AM (#38693476)
yes, and that's why figuring out the distribution of your opinions and normalizing them to convolve them with the rest of the raters will extract useful information from your ratings.
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Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by Eisenstein on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @04:33AM (#38693591)
According to your logic we should be failing half of all school classes because half the kids shouldn't be above average.

Not many people are going to think that a system which weights everything to be distributed that way is useful as a metric for evaluating human experiences.

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