WWW Paper | Mitigating the Participation Bias by Balancing Extreme Ratings
“Only people who are extremely satisfied or extremely pissed off would rate the products—how to aggregate the real ratings?"—— Mitigating the Participation Bias by Balancing Extreme Ratings Yongkang Guo, Yuqing Kong, Jialiang Liu Rating aggregation plays a crucial role in various fields, such as product recommendations, hotel rankings, and teaching evaluations. However, traditional averaging methods can be affected by participation bias, where some raters do not participate in the rating process, leading to potential distortions....