{"id":38304,"date":"2013-07-16T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/reviewing-reviews-2.html"},"modified":"2013-07-16T10:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:13:38","slug":"reviewing-reviews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/reviewing-reviews-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
Online reviews can be helpful, but the should be treated like — well, any other anonymous anecdotal information. \u00a0Sometimes a reviewer will not a feature (or flaw) that's not highlighted elsewhere that's important to my decision. Sometimes I just have to make an assessment about how credible a particular outlier is. \u00a0<\/p>\n

While Amazon has some particularly zany reviewers (largely because they have a huge universe of reviews), I do like that they show distribution graphs and let you easily sort, flag as useful, and drill down to the top and bottom reviews. \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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Why Web Reviewers Make Up Bad Things<\/a>
\n Internet reviewers are fond of denouncing products and services they have never bought. Two researchers tackled this well-known but poorly understood phenomenon.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Online reviews can be helpful, but the should be treated like — well, any other anonymous anecdotal information. \u00a0Sometimes a reviewer will not a feature (or flaw) that's not highlighted elsewhere that's important to my decision. Sometimes I just have to make an assessment about how credible a particular outlier is. \u00a0 While Amazon has … Continue reading “Reviewing Reviews”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12742,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/rolling_stone_on_john_mcc.html","url_meta":{"origin":38304,"position":0},"title":"Rolling Stone on John McCain","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Oct-08 9:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In ten long pages, Rolling Stone<\/i> reviews the careers and lives of John McCain -- sometimes in his own words, sometimes in the words of his colleagues on both...","rel":"","context":"In "Elections 2008"","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/john_mccain3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7797,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/09\/kafka_would_lov.html","url_meta":{"origin":38304,"position":1},"title":"Kafka would love writing about my job this week","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Aug-05 9:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Schedules. 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View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31865,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/reviewing-reviews.html","url_meta":{"origin":38304,"position":3},"title":"Reviewing Reviews","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Dec-12 7:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Charles Stross looks at reviews (books in particular, though I suspect the same follows for most other reviewable creative works), and what you can (and can't) learn from them as a creator. (h\/t +Tim Hall) Embedded Link Understanding Reader Reviews - Charlie's Diary Reader reviews: we get them. 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Since you asked.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27447,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/shopping-today.html","url_meta":{"origin":38304,"position":5},"title":"Shopping Today","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Apr-12 10:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Um ... yeah, pretty much. 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