PayPal Honey extension has again "featured" flag in Chrome web store

(chromewebstore.google.com)

324 points dvh | 1 comments | 08 Mar 25 06:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.336s | source

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Timshel ◴[08 Mar 25 08:20 UTC] No.43298517[source]▶

>>43298054 (OP) #

How is it still at 4.6 stars ??? On Firefox it dropped to 2.9 ...

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hicallmeal ◴[08 Mar 25 08:48 UTC] No.43298634[source]▶

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In addition to a sibling comment about median, it could be that or that other common method (I forget, bayesion average? I think), but also consider - 176K reviews, 76 days since the _expose_, if it were 100 reviews a day on average, that's still 7.6K reviews. If it were 10K in the first few days, then 7.6K after, it's still ~10% of total reviews, where they likely had a ~4.6-8 score before hand. A drop in the bucket.

And it's possible (though imo unlikely) that some reviews were removed, perhaps initially at least, due to suspected botting.

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1. manquer ◴[08 Mar 25 11:06 UTC] No.43299250[source]▶

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Median has little difference to mean when it is a bounded variable .

Rating can only vary 1-5, so mean and median will always be pretty close . For variables like say wealth that skews the average with outliers is where median is more useful than mean

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