David Gerard wrote:
2009/1/15 Ray Saintonge:
Yes, there will be some individuals determined to vote stupidly, but one of the wonders of a statistical approach is that those efforts are soon marginalized.
Just ignoring the top and bottom 10% of ratings can do wonders for this sort of thing, by the way.
That would work, but may not be necessary if the number of raters is large. I suspect that the figures with and without truncation will tend to converge. If a rating system of this sort were implemented it should be an easily tested hypothesis.
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