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> Most nice people grade on a curve. I don't understand this, could you explain?

• benatkin 16y ago
  What I mean by grading on a curve is that, rather than give as many 1-star reviews as 5-star reviews, nice people almost always give between 3 and 5 stars. Even if they find an app to be useless to them, they often give the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps it will improve in a future version, or be more useful to someone else.
  • gjm11 16y ago
    By doing so, of course, they make the whole system roughly 1/3 less useful[1] for everyone; that isn't my idea of "nice". [1] log 3 / log 5 ~= 0.68.
    • benatkin 16y ago
      True. It's mitigated somewhat by having half-stars in the reviews (not sure Apple does this but Yelp does), but it still makes it a pretty slim margin between crappy and excellent.