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Star-ratings for online reviews would probably be actually helpful if you just excluded all the five-star reviews from the calculations (lemmy.ml)

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Companies don't pay for four-star reviews, but a person giving a four-star review liked the product overall.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Star ratings suck.

Let us imagine a 1 star hotel room. That could range from a dirty room that has no air conditioning to a bare concrete cell with a bucket to piss in.

Let us imagine a 5 star hotel room. That could range from a penthouse suite in Tokyo to a room on the Galaxy-class Enterprise-D U.S.S. Challenger starship.

And there's no weighting these ratings. 5 stars is 5 stars. 1 star is 1 star. Totally meaningless.