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Why not try the lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter?

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....



We actually use this whenever we do any ranking within the site. On the film page though, we think presenting the raw data as a scatter plot is better than a single number.




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