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Also, sorting by reviews is broken (in the sense of being useful). A product with a single rating of 5 stars should not be ranked above a product with 1000 fiv
by FaceKicker 15y ago
Also, sorting by reviews is broken (in the sense of being useful). A product with a single rating of 5 stars should not be ranked above a product with 1000 five-star ratings and 1 four-star rating. It's a really easy problem to solve too...
- r00fus 15y agoThe silly thing is that IMDB figured out ranking in 1997 by using a beysian posterior mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database#Ranking_.28IMDb_Top_250.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database#Ranking... (guess who has owned IMDB for over 10 years?)