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Re:Ask HN: My game was just featured in the Windows 8 app st... by lifeisstillgood on Sunday March 03, 2013 @04:19PM (#5315281)
Interesting - can any statistician point to the "proper" way to weight such rankings?
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Re:Ask HN: My game was just featured in the Windows 8 app st... by aaronharnly on Sunday March 03, 2013 @04:56PM (#5315398)
This post describes an approach:

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....

and this little page demonstrates an adaptation to a 5-star rating system:

http://www.goproblems.com/test/wilson/wilson.php?v1=0&v2...

Randall Munroe gave a user-oriented explanation of the system here:

http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...

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