zolloie

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   by zolloie 9y ago

   That's the funny thing to me, that people are using Netflix as an example. To me, Netflix ratings are just about the most useless ratings of all the ratings I'm aware of, maybe even more so than Amazon's ratings. There's
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   by zolloie 9y ago

   I seem to be the only one who remembers this, but for a brief period of time, Amazon implemented the lower confidence bound approach (where you were sorting on the lower bound to the average, not the average itself). I loved it, but I notic
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   by zolloie 9y ago

   The flaw with that line of criticism is that it makes assumptions about the meaning of the ratings. Note, too, that Arrow's impossibility theorem applies to ranking but not ratings . That also applies to a very simplified, idealized
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   by zolloie 9y ago

   I do research in this area and have many reactions to a lot of topics being brought up. I read this piece when it first was written and didn't think to look at the posting on HN until now. The problem with dichotomous ratings (binary,