Comment by rsynnott
7 months ago
> For example, he has stated before that he thinks 3 star reviews on products are "by definition" unbiased, because they must include good and bad points.
... What?
Has this person ever visited a review site? I mean, it varies fairly dramatically, and there are some niches where 3/5, 5/10 etc has a fairly defined meaning (for instance, for TV reviewers it means "meh", for gadget reviewers it means "this will catch fire as soon as you plug it in"), but really, I mean, what?
The author seems to deliberately misunderstand the language that a non-native English speaker is using, for the purposes of maximizing outrage. There isn't any citation, but I doubt Vlad said anything like that. If I had to guess, I'd assume it was a more nuanced take like "3-star reviews are less likely to be biased than 5-star reviews."
For example, Kagi very clearly does not own a t-shirt factory, and this worst-faith take makes me distrust the entire post.