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gwern comments on Simple theory of IMDB bias - Less Wrong Discussion

-4 Post author: taw 03 January 2012 10:20AM

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Comment author: gwern 03 January 2012 09:30:07PM 3 points [-]

For what it's worth, when you look at rankings, they almost always exhibit a recency bias (Murray gives some examples in Human Accomplishment as he tries to correct for it), so I am pretty skeptical that the IMDB would exhibit an anti-recency bias.