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Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith

The first thing I noticed when I looked at Goodreads - and Bookwyrm, and LibraryThing, and Rotten Tomatoes - is the five-star rating system.

When I created the Red Guide to Temp Agencies in 1994, I decided that the reviews would not be quantitative, because different people expect different things from temp agencies.

A five-star review from someone I've never met means nothing to me. Why do people keep building systems that just average individual subjective ratings?

nytimes.com/2023/12/24/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Goodreads Had So Much Potential. Here’s How to Redeem It.By Maris Kreizman