# Bayesian ranking of items with up and downvotes or 5 star ratings

<http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/08/17/bayesian-scoring-of-ratings.html>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

Evan Miller wrote a great article How Not To Sort By Average Rating. He shows that simple formulas like score = upvotes - downvotes or score = upvotes / (upvotes + downvotes) don

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