{"id":1231,"date":"2021-04-20T18:53:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/the-positivity-problem-why-online-star-ratings-are-too-good-to-be-true\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T16:53:25","slug":"the-positivity-problem-why-online-star-ratings-are-too-good-to-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/the-positivity-problem-why-online-star-ratings-are-too-good-to-be-true\/","title":{"rendered":"The positivity problem: why online star ratings are too good to be true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet can be an angry place full of cynical opinions but there\u2019s one realm where it\u2019s actually <em>too<\/em> positive: online reviews<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that reviews on websites like Yelp and Amazon are overwhelmingly positive \u2013 something they believe renders star ratings unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-021-01098-5\">new study<\/a> published in Nature has shown that upwards of 80% of online reviews rate items with four or five stars. That creates what they\u2019ve termed the \u201cpositivity problem\u201d for consumers hoping to use star ratings as a guide for where to dine or shop.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/apr\/21\/the-positivity-problem-why-online-star-ratings-are-too-good-to-be-true\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fe4fdd8a43f6dcc7304cc7bb3159dd8b5a41d5c9\/6_0_6688_4016\/master\/6688.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e74c4407d3ddb1ee8b4f1df8f33e08f2\" title=\"The positivity problem: why online star ratings are too good to be true\" \/>The internet can be an angry place full of cynical opinions but there\u2019s one realm where it\u2019s actually too positive: online reviews<br \/>\nResearchers have found that reviews on websites like Yelp and Amazon are overwhelmingly positive \u2013 something they believe renders star ratings unreliable.<br \/>\nA new study published in Nature has shown that upwards of 80% of online reviews rate items with four or five stars. That creates what they\u2019ve termed the \u201cpositivity problem\u201d for consumers hoping to use star ratings as a guide for where to dine or shop. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet can be an angry place full of cynical opinions but there\u2019s one realm where it\u2019s actually too positive: online reviews Researchers have found that reviews on websites like Yelp and Amazon are overwhelmingly positive \u2013 something they believe renders star ratings unreliable. A new study published in Nature has shown that upwards of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/the-positivity-problem-why-online-star-ratings-are-too-good-to-be-true\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The positivity problem: why online star ratings are too good to be true<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}