How Not To Sort By Average Rating

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.

The solution:

lolmath

Algorithm discussed and a Ruby implementation provided! Love this sort of applied statistics. Discussion in link below on HN.

(Source: news.ycombinator.com)