How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by discardorama on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:51PM (#9859090)

How well does this work when you don't have a binary (+/-) rating system, but a multi-valued one (1 - 5 stars) ?

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by cgearhart on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:55PM (#9859118)

See the discussion elsewhere in this thread for confidence intervals in multinomial distributions. https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=9856607&goto=item%3Fid...

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by jmilloy on Thursday July 09, 2015 @12:56PM (#9859125)

You could replace p/n in the formula with the average star rating and still get a reasonable ranking order.

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