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How Hotelist normalizes hotel ratings across booking sites
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To make it a bit more clearer what Hotelist does to show you the real ratings of hotels, instead of the inflated ratings from booking sites I've added this toggle for @afonsolfm as he didn't understand what was the point On booking sites this hotel below would look good or great based on the ratings (except maybe Yelp), like an 8.8/10 must be great? When we take the average range of ratings on each booking site though, for example 4.2 to 5 and then take its hotel rating of 4.5, we can then…
@levelsio@levelsioOct 5
I analyzed the range of ratings on booking sites and it's pretty crazy Airbnb goes just from 4.5 to 5 with a median of 5! But most others aren't better, they all range from about 4 to 5, and almost all have a median of 4.25, with not many scores outside of it! The best site in terms of honest ratings is actually Yelp, whatever they're doing it's working, it shows an actual normal distribution and ratings you can trust Hotelist itself is a normal distribution with median at 3.5, which was my goal, most stays are average/okay which I'd consider 3.5/5
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