How Not To Sort By Average RatingBy Evan Miller February 6, 2009 (Changes) Translations: Dutch Estonian German Russian Ukrainian PROBLEM: You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of “score” to sort by. WRONG SOLUTION #1: Score = (Positive ratings) − (Negative ratings) Why it is wrong: Supp
