The Perils of Partnership

Gwern Branwen · 22 Mar 2012, 17:10 · from 2012-March.txt.gz

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From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:10:12 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Perils of Partnership
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2012/3/22 Ant?nio Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:
> At amazon or anywhere else, you should always check the vendor's rating
> (which however only gains significance with the number of reviews).

Always an interesting statistical topic:
http://andrewgelman.com/2007/03/bayesian_sortin/

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