Reviews in the wild
Should you watch that movie / play that game / read that book? The formula is:
[# who rated it 5/5] + [# who rated it 1/5] – [# who rated it 3/5].
This doesn’t apply to everything, but it applies to many things, including media. There are too many options out there to waste time on mediocrity, and everything great will be divisive.
[# who rated it 5/5] + [# who rated it 1/5] – [# who rated it 3/5].
This doesn’t apply to everything, but it applies to many things, including media. There are too many options out there to waste time on mediocrity, and everything great will be divisive.
Jacob Falkovich • 100 Ways to Live Better — LessWrong
When I’m looking for some collective intelligence on movies or TV shows that I might want to see, I tend to favor Metacritic over Rotten Tomatoes, because Rotten Tomatoes focuses more on a thumbs up, thumbs down, and Metacritic focuses more on a gradient. And it seems like even though thumbs up and thumbs down might be better foregoing this tendenc... See more
Layman Pascal • Transcript of Currents 081: Layman Pascal Interviews Jim Rutt on Twitter as Collective Intelligence - The Jim Rutt Show
