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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 day ago

This right here is a great example of the societal cancer that is review inflation: when perfect (5 out of 5) becomes the new good enough, every review becomes an essentially useless binary.

I'd argue that you shouldn't ever trust a 5 star review that isn't absolutely overflowing with specific and relevant praise, but that's just me being stuck in the before times when they were actually useful.

[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Humans are pretty bad at consistently rating things on a scale. I like Steam's method of just asking whether you like it and then aggregating those into a rating.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Humans are pretty bad at consistently rating things on a scale

Yeah, it seems almost only professional reviewers know how to consistently quantify quality and even amongst them, it varies a lot.

Yet in these days of social media, everyone and their mother consider their own judgment superior 😮‍💨

I like Steam's method of just asking whether you like it and then aggregating those into a rating

Yeah, I couldn't agree more! It actually works!

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago

At a bio shop they have 10 levels, all are shown as bad except 9 & 10. How lovely, right?

[-] papalonian@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

At my old job, we had phone surveys on the receipts. Customer could call and rate their service from 1-9 (I can only guess that when they implemented the system it could only register a single digit rating). When tallying up "positive" and "negative" reviews, 9 counted as positive, anything below that was negative.

We had one woman that would give us a review every week, but would give us an 8 because she "doesn't like odd numbers". We had to ask her to please stop because it was actually hurting our numbers.

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 4 points 15 hours ago

I ordered a blueberry bagel, and I very specifically wanted only the one blueberry, not the dozens of others that were also baked in. While I appreciate the enthusiasm, I'm afraid I must deduct one star for this miscalculation.

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 16 hours ago

Ugh I used to live near a bagel place like this and it was amazing. Unfortunately the landlord raised rent so much that the business ended up closing.

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago

The actual product is only a fraction of where that review should be coming from. There's things like cleanliness, staff interactions, time, and quality.

Don't we all? Even (or perhaps especially) the assholes?

[-] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 points 23 hours ago

Seems like the owner has something to say.

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