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by bllguo 3222 days ago
unfortunately sample sizes will probably decrease drastically when you're looking at the subset of people who rated 4 specific games, or other such cases
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Yes, that alone is probably enough to make any system like that come with a huge false-positive rate.

I myself only rarely post a review, and I could easily see how - in a vacuum - my star ratings might look like those of a bot.