User: charleskiddell

Re:Trust but Verify

On: Should You Trust Website Customer Reviews?

I think you have a very good idea there, though most readers won't understand how practical and relatively easy it would be to implement (yet another amusing use for Djikstra's shortest path algorithm :-)

My own observation about reviews relates to an Amazon review of The African American Woman's Health Book: A Guide to the Prevention and Cure of Illness -- it got an editorial review from Vanessa Bush Copyright © American Library Association. BUT the reviewer refers to the author as "she" even though he is rather obviously a "he" to anyone who did more than glance at the chapter headings. Clearly Vanessa Bush cranked out a cursory review, not having read the book, as a method of advertising herself and the "American Library Association". Incidentally the book itself is surprisingly mediocre, containing little about "African American" women that is not true about women in general, and it is poorly written.