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by arijun 18 days ago
> visual studio appears to be highest rated product with 2 ratings

That's why Bayesian average is superior; if you don't have enough ratings you basically get assigned the average for all products (or, likely, all similar products in this case).

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Good point — implementing Bayesian averaging so low vote entities don't dominate the leaderboard. Cheers
Bayesian averaging is live