20+ 5-star reviews to balance out the 4-4 stars we had. We're up to something like 30+ reviews now and were going along with 5 full stars until we got a 2-star rating. That dropped us back to 4.5.
If I had to guess, I'd say you have to have not so much a run of 5 stars as some % of 5 stars to 4 stars. For me, it seems like a 5:1 ratio. 5- 5 stars to 1-4 star to get the 5 star rating. But probably not with JUST 5-6 reviews. Once you get quite few more reviews, you should hit the solid 5-star rating you deserve..
What you described is could just the be the rounding rule at play.
With a 0.5 star increment system, and normal rounding, it means that you'd need a 4.75 or above in order to get rounded up to 5.
20 @ 5 plus 4 @ 4 is an average of 4.83 Would round to 5
20 @ 5 plus 4 @ 2 1 @ 2 is an average of 4.72 would round to 4.5
Add in to that the notion that newer values carry more weight and it could more than explain what you saw.
And their math might intentionally be funny...well not so much the math, but the rounding rule. They could decide to build in a little safety by making the rounding rule have a little bias, As in you need a 4.8 before it rounds to 5
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I think my point was that it happened almost immediately. The day after I saw the review in fact, which would make it less than a week since the date of the review.
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Ahh...I see what you were saying. We'd need more data to say for sure. Like you said, could have just been that the update happened coincidentally around that time, or it could help define that things are recalculated continually. Need more data points
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swirt said:
Ahh...I see what you were saying. We'd need more data to say for sure. Like you said, could have just been that the update happened coincidentally around that time, or it could help define that things are recalculated continually. Need more data points
Take a look at the 2 inns in positions 1 & 2. They just swapped places today. That's 2 corrections in a week.
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Possibly. Or it is two different things. One update of star count and one update of the ranking. The rank ordering is not 100% tied to star count as far as I can tell. It is possible they all update continuously, but it is just as possible that they update them on different schedules.
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Nothing to do with what we were talking about but it's an annoying observation on TA...I didn't think you could review multiple places in one review. I was looking at other places in town and one reviewer went on and on about how boring it is here and how she would rather take her young, bored family to another town and stay at this other place instead. And then she named the town and the other hotel.
I thought that was taboo. For me it's annoying. Why do I want to know that someone who hasn't a clue how to entertain themselves if the room doesn't have a phone is bored, the TV only got 3 channels (again with the 'boring') and wouldn't let her kid play on the playground because it was 'old'? And the only place there is to eat in the whole town is McD's and Friendlys. Hmmmm. I can tell you exactly how far down Main St they drove. 10 feet. Then they were so bored they had to stop.
Sorry, I guess those things are important to know if you've decided you'd like to try a rustic cabin in the woods but don't realize what that actually means. And it IS rustic out there.
I'm having fun trying to figure people out with the reviews. Average rate stated on TA for another place (a hotel) is $132. My average price stated on TA is a smidge higher, about 1/2 the cost of a single breakfast at a diner. What does everyone complain about on that hotel's reviews? The breakfast. It was just a continental. Go figure. It's too far out of town to walk to restaurants. It's too far away to walk to anything. Funniest one was that they relocated the hotel to an entirely different town about 15 miles away. So, yes, it IS too far to walk!
But some did like that all the hallways are inside the building so it's 'safe' for single females.
So, for a couple of dollars more they could stay here, in town, walk to everything, have a full breakfast AND, amazingly, have interior hallways! But do they? No. It's easier to complain and 'settle' than to try something new.
OK, here's another review that says there's no place to eat in this town, 'everything is closed until spring.' Not sure WHAT town they were in but not much closes here in the winter. No, the stores were all closed until spring. The restaurants were all closed so they HAD to eat in the hotel. People are funny.
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