Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
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Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#2One of the links in the article points to jevi.com instead of jeviz.com
Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#3Amazon's "sort by rating" functionality is fundamentally broken. See http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... for an explanation on how to sort items by ratings in an intuitively good manner. What it does is balance the uncertainty that a low number of ratings implies and the proportion of good ratings.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855784 for an older comment thread on that article.
Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#4The article doesn't spell it out. Here's what you do:
- Search on amazon
- Filter by 4 stars and up (or whatever)
- Choose a sort from the dropdown
- Change the sort=XXXXX param to sort=review-count-rank
Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
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Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#6The article doesn't spell it out. Here's what you do: - Search on amazon - Filter by 4 stars and up (or whatever) - Choose a sort from the dropdown - Change the sort=XXXXX param to sort=review-count-rank
Maybe someone could build a greasemonkey script to make it even easier.
Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#7One of the links in the article points to jevi.com instead of jeviz.com
Thank you for pointing! I fixed it.
Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#8Amazon's "sort by rating" functionality is fundamentally broken. See http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... for an explanation on how to sort items by ratings in an intuitively good manner. What it does is balance the uncertainty that a low number of ratings implies and the proportion of good ratings. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9855784 for an older comment thread on that article…
Yeah, for a company so big it really bothers me that there are flaws like this still around. Fixing this would be a win for everybody.
Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#9It’s sad how many big websites get confidence adjustment wrong. A big downside to the workaround proposed here is that it doesn’t re-include those things that have a small number of low scores. If a product on Amazon starts off with a few 1-star scores for bad reasons, that could put it at the bottom of a very long list before it gets a statistically significant number of scores.
Re: Amazon Search Hack: Eliminate products that have 4/5 stars but only few reviews
#10The article doesn't spell it out. Here's what you do: - Search on amazon - Filter by 4 stars and up (or whatever) - Choose a sort from the dropdown - Change the sort=XXXXX param to sort=review-count-rank
That doesn't seem to work for me. http://imgur.com/1iVDjnJ