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I'm seeing a similar number for iOS: Rating % All % Turkish 1 09.6% 15.2% 2 03.5% 04.4%

I'm seeing a similar number for iOS: Rating % All % Turkish 1 09.6% 15.2% 2 03.5% 04.4% 3 06.5% 07.0% 4 16.6% 14.5% 5 63.6% 58.7% (Source: data from MixRank's iOS intelligence) There's definitely a bump in 1-star reviews in Turkey.

pliny 13y ago
Could be accounted for by apps with poor localization.
- nickff 13y ago
  So these apps have approximately equally good localization for every other language, except Turkish?
  - msherry 13y ago
    I get that you were being flippant, but apparently Turkish is unusually hard to localize for: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/whats-wrong-with-turkey.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/whats-wrong-with-tu...
    - phaker 13y ago
      This post is a little like programming pop science: an entertaining read, but greatly overstates some small result. The only Turkish-specific problem he mentions is case folding of ı/i. This is a problem unique to Turkish, there are other problems in case folding, like eszett (ß/ss) in German but these are much less likely to trip you up. The US date format (m/d/y) is used virtually only in US, most other places use d/m/y or y/m/d. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map Re dots for thousands separators -- the world is split about roughly evenly on this, with all of europe (except for Great Britain and Ireland) using commas for decimals dots for thousands separators. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2.80.93Arabic_numeral_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2.80.93Arab...
      - GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
        "This post is a little like programming pop science" That's Jeff Atwood for you.
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tlarkworthy 13y ago
That bump may be bigger if you separate by date. If it's a new trend then the newer Turkish reviews will be the outliers.
bnegreve 13y ago
> There's definitely a bump in 1-star reviews in Turkey. Wait wait wait, the mere fact that Turkish has more 1 start review than the world average doesn't tell you anything about other countries individually. It could be that most countries are above the world average except a couple of countries with almost no 0-star reviews. If you want to make this point, at least give us the standard deviation.
darkhorn 13y ago
That's why we don't have nice things in Turkey.

pliny 13y ago

Could be accounted for by apps with poor localization.

nickff 13y ago
So these apps have approximately equally good localization for every other language, except Turkish?
- msherry 13y ago
  I get that you were being flippant, but apparently Turkish is unusually hard to localize for: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/whats-wrong-with-turkey.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/whats-wrong-with-tu...
  - phaker 13y ago
    This post is a little like programming pop science: an entertaining read, but greatly overstates some small result. The only Turkish-specific problem he mentions is case folding of ı/i. This is a problem unique to Turkish, there are other problems in case folding, like eszett (ß/ss) in German but these are much less likely to trip you up. The US date format (m/d/y) is used virtually only in US, most other places use d/m/y or y/m/d. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country#Map Re dots for thousands separators -- the world is split about roughly evenly on this, with all of europe (except for Great Britain and Ireland) using commas for decimals dots for thousands separators. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2.80.93Arabic_numeral_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2.80.93Arab...
    - GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
      "This post is a little like programming pop science" That's Jeff Atwood for you.
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tlarkworthy 13y ago

That bump may be bigger if you separate by date. If it's a new trend then the newer Turkish reviews will be the outliers.

bnegreve 13y ago

> There's definitely a bump in 1-star reviews in Turkey. Wait wait wait, the mere fact that Turkish has more 1 start review than the world average doesn't tell you anything about other countries individually. It could be that most countries are above the world average except a couple of countries with almost no 0-star reviews. If you want to make this point, at least give us the standard deviation.

darkhorn 13y ago

That's why we don't have nice things in Turkey.