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Re:Brewing a Better Rating System by selven on Thursday October 29, 2009 @09:45PM (#911351)
Start everything off with a single 50-point score. That way one person ranking it 100 will bump it up to 75, the next to 83, and so on. Such a system would cause teas that have more people upvoting them to rank higher than those that just happen to have one or two good opinions.
Re:Brewing a Better Rating System by Eliezer on Thursday October 29, 2009 @10:42PM (#911429)
That's a special case of a particular sort of Bayesian average.