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		pook on May 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How to convert 5 star ratings to up/down v... http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/09/paper/download/22... may help. The polarization into "strongly like" and "strongly dislike" ought to help.

rradu on May 20, 2010 [–]

Yea it does help.

I can say the star rating is just an average of up and down. So if there were 10 votes and the rating was 3 out of 5, I can assume that means there were 6 up votes and 4 down votes for a score of 2.

This sounds promising.

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