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> Bottom line is that people are smart enough to filter out bad reviews. The problem is that the software generally filters first - e.g. "show me the 'best of'
by gallamine 12y ago
> Bottom line is that people are smart enough to filter out bad reviews.
The problem is that the software generally filters first - e.g. "show me the 'best of'" or "sort by top rated". If you're looking at a selection of hundreds of items, I don't know that your statement holds.
- rlucas 12y agoIt's the "scalar fallacy." In a nutshell, the scalar fallacy is the false but pervasive assumption that real-world things (hotels, sandwiches, people, mutual funds, chemo drugs, whatever) have some single-dimension ordering of "goodness". When you project a multi-dimensional space down to one dimension, you are involving a lot of context and preferences in the act of projecting. Just sayin'.