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by true_religion 5191 days ago
You can't use Wilson's confidence with a star-rating system. Wilson's only works for binary systems.

Instead you could use a weighted baysian rating:

br = ( (avg_num_votes * avg_rating) + (this_num_votes * this_rating) ) / (avg_num_votes + this_num_votes)