On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Diana Wynne wrote:
Yelp's "firsts" do reward a certain kind of competitive behavior. It
doesn't
mean those people's opinions are particularly reliable.
You're right that individual people's opinions aren't particularly
reliable, but the system tends to self correct.
In our work, we've noticed that when people see a review they don't
agree with, they are more motivated to review than if they see reviews
they do agree with.
So, if the first reviewers skew away from the average beliefs, it will
eventually populate in the direction that matches the average.
Jared
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