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Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by syops »

cableshaft wrote: post #334
syops wrote: post #284

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The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.

He's making a joke, not supporting his dissertation. He's allowed to be fast and loose with ideas for a laugh, as a professional comedian. Do you think when he says things like "Takes the cake. Ya know, say 'Boy he really takes the cake'...Where? Where do ya take a cake? to the movies?" That he's exposing his own ignorance of idioms?

Yes, he's making a joke. It's funny and a pithy remark. The point is made. I find it an interesting point because when mocking other peoples' intelligence one ought to make certain they are correct. Sort of how when one criticizes another person's grammar they should make sure they didn't make a grammar mistake too.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by neltnerb »

chkaloon wrote: post #372
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #224

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> who centered their messages much more around reducing the structural power of billionaires and large corporations. The problem is that there is a segment of the American voters who believe that if the current billionaires and large corporations would quit screwing them, they would become the billionaires and owners of the large corporations. As such they are all for screwing over the current crop of billionaires, b…

I've heard it said that Americans all think they are potential millionaires and billionaires that have temporarily hit a down patch. That's why democratic socialism will never fly here except for isolated programs.

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

John Steinbeck

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by syops »

sa1 wrote: post #345
syops wrote: post #284

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The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.

In a normal distribution mean = median.

Do you believe intelligence is truly a normal distribution? It's commonly modeled as such but is it actually truly a normal distribution? A normal distribution is a continuous function and the set of people is discrete. It's a great model but...is actually correct?

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by syops »

smnrchrds wrote: post #300
syops wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.

Median is a form of average. Here is the first definition for average from Merriam-Webster: > a single value (such as a mean, mode, or median) that summarizes or represents the general significance of a set of unequal values https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average

Have you ever used "average" when you meant median? Carlin is speaking in the vernacular. I've never heard anyone use "average" when they meant median.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by syops »

DennisP wrote: post #348
syops wrote: post #284

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The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.

I made that point on reddit a month ago, and some wag pointed out that since I evidently didn't know IQ scores were a bell curve, it appeared I was in the lower half.

This is funny because a bell curve is a continuous function and the set of people is discrete. The bell curve is a model of the population at large but I have my doubts that it's a perfect model and that it perfectly matches up with reality. I think the commenter may be the lower half!

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by gmanley »

kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #109
fastball wrote: post #64

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Manipulated? I just gave a 1-star review on the iOS app store and am currently pulling all my money out of my RH account, because I don't like how RH is behaving. People all thinking something is shit is not manipulation, its just collective agreement.

To play the Devil's advocate here, my personal intuition is that App reviews should be for how the apps perform, and shouldn't be used as proxy for reviewing those businesses. If the app is buggy or broken or whatever, it makes sense to give a low rating. I am not sure it makes equal sense if people suddenly realize they don't like the company who has made the app.

The functionality of the App and the policies and choices of the business are intrinsically tied. In this case their choice directly affected the functionality of the App: I was unable to buy or even view certain stocks. In my opinion that is, without a doubt, App functionality that should be subject to user review and rating.

It's one thing for the company to make choices that people disagree with but don't affect the actual functionality of the App. This could be environmental policies, partnering with a controversial government, using tax loopholes, etc. People going on brigades to review bomb an App for these types of issues are what should be protected against. Mass shifts in public opinion due to actual changes in how the App behaves should not be protected against.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by dstola »

zouhair wrote: post #257
SllX wrote: post #221

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> We need to start by making it illegal to be a billionaire. I’m listening. What does this law look like?

Taxes. I think most human beings can survive with 100 millions of dollars of wealth (it's more than one can spend in multiple lifetimes). Anything over that can just be taxed. The problem of letting any private entities get that rich is they start to take control of everything. One such example is The East India Company having at one point a bigger private army than the British Army[0]. As things go we will soon be a…

> Anything over that can just be taxed.

Except the politicians will take that extra tax money and use it to bail out banks and wall street and spend it on shit that no one needs and impose policies that no one cares about and continue the corruption cycle, only now with a lot more money than they had before. We should trust the government a lot less, not more, with our hard earned dollars.

Greed is part of the human nature, and people in the government are no exception.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by DenisM »

centimeter wrote: post #91
b215826 wrote: post #65

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But... but... I thought he was a misogynistic pervert who needs to be expunged from the face of the earth.

It's a good idea to stop and think why megacorps all uniformly support modern social justice movements. Beneficial side effects include: * Racial diversity decreases worker cohesion and therefore unionization risk. * Dozens of reasons to get canceled means that anyone who has a social following can be torn down if they pose a threat.

The mega corps are driving the wedge between the blue collar working class and the white collar working class. Should the two groups ever unite they would tear the mega corps back into a pile of tiny toothless startups, and that’s against all moneyed interests.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by syops »

_jal wrote: post #303
syops wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The interesting thing about this quote is that there's a decent chance it's wrong. Is there a reason to believe that half the people are below the average? (As opposed to the median.) Carlin is exposing his own ignorance of statistics with this quote. It's akin to when people criticize the grammar of others whilst making a grammatical mistake.

Because lord knows, nothing would George Carlin's act funnier than... a better grasp of statistics.

His joke is funny and the point is made. I find it funny that the joke about peoples' intelligence may contain a mistake. Hence my comment.

Re: Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours

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Post by neltnerb »

animal_spirits wrote: post #246
utkugenc wrote: post #196

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How do you define "fake review"? People are not happy with a company and its app and they are "punishing" the company, what is the purpose of reviews if not this?

Exactly, how do you define "fake review"? Google sees 100K+ negative reviews coming in for one app on one day. What do you think they're going to do? Take 'em all down and call it a day. I really doubt that there is some incredibly corrupt culture in Google Play reviews or something like some are suggesting. I really the product owners just want to go home for the day/turn off the computer and eat dinner, just like e…

If you're using an AI, I assume they see that the comments coming in all follow an extremely similar format or come from suspicious IP addresses or come in at suspicious time intervals and so on. There are plenty of indicators that a review might be a bot.

That would be wrong but believable. I read some of the reviews, they did look very similar in ways beyond describing the same problems.

But I'm good with assuming malice, it seems like every company that takes action right now is unlikely to be doing it coincidentally. Maybe Google is doing it because of money somehow, hopefully it's an actual mistake that they'll fix. I suspect the former.

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