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Comment author: gwern 17 February 2014 05:23:09PM *  3 points [-]

For those interested, another enlightening paper is “Overcoming the J-shaped distribution of product reviews” by Nan Hu et al, which discusses rating biases on websites such as amazon.

This paper is downloadable from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2369332

It seems to be a summary of their much longer 2007 paper: "Why do Online Product Reviews have a J-shaped Distribution? Overcoming Biases in Online Word-of-Mouth Communication"

Comment author: Snorri 18 February 2014 02:19:41AM 2 points [-]

The link has been updated and the longer paper added. Thank you for sharing.

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