News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by marcus on Thursday February 12, 2009 @03:26PM (#478931)
Hmm that depends on the book and who posted the 1s and the 5s, you just described the ratings of every scientology book and every evolution book in amazon.

But I agree that while there is a decent chance that a book with lots of 5s and lots 1s will be of value, the chances that a book with straight 3s to be worth anything are pretty slim.

Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by iamwil on Thursday February 12, 2009 @06:15PM (#479153)
And Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science", if I remember correctly.
Re:How Not To Sort By Average Rating by mhartl on Thursday February 12, 2009 @10:45PM (#479394)
And SICP.