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But the whole idea of attaching a one dimensional number to a preference seems flawed. How do you even compare movies, books, songs you enjoy? There’s a broad s
by lovecg 6y ago
But the whole idea of attaching a one dimensional number to a preference seems flawed. How do you even compare movies, books, songs you enjoy? There’s a broad sense of liking or not something in general, but attaching a 4.1 stars to this and 4.3 stars to that seems delusional. And it’s not context-free either: start taking into account the time of day, state of mind, the phase of the moon or what have you, and you might as well throw the whole concept out.
- mikewarot 6y ago>But the whole idea of attaching a one dimensional number to a preference seems flawed. I think the idea of attaching a one dimensional number to almost anything in computer mediated communications is wrong. I believe we should rate things with a vector, not a scalar. Example: Your post Is 4.5 insightful, 0.2 snark, 5.0 truthful, 0.0 political
- BlueTemplar 6y agoThe law of large numbers deals with the last issue. A much worse issue is that the aggregated rating is going to depend on the expectations that people had of the product. And bad marketing can screw that up, especially if it attracts the kind of people that are a bad fit for the product. And the smaller you are, the more the 'marketing' is out of your hands.