How Not To Sort By Average Rating

Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by gojomo on Thursday February 12, 2009 @01:26PM (#478760)

Yelling "WRONG" at two popular options isn't much of an argument. I suspect that Amazon has a good profit-maximizing reason for their ordering.

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Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by paulgb on Thursday February 12, 2009 @02:59PM (#478893)

But the author didn't just yell wrong, he provided examples exposing the flaws in both scoring models.

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Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by gojomo on Thursday February 12, 2009 @03:50PM (#478966)

He showed screenshots, without explaining anything wrong with the rankings unless the reader already intuitively agreed with him.

But why isn't the net-positive score the right thing for UrbanDictionary, and the average the right thing for Amazon? No case was made.

I could argue these either way, but if I were to write an attention-grabbing headline and yell "WRONG", I'd actually make a case. Attitude alone is not an argument.

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