Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Statistics Unmask Phony Online Reviews

Today06/18/2012Yes it does make you wonder about the "value" of surveys and rankings we see on the web all the time.  I'm a healthcare blogger and a couple years ago I shook up the Hospital and Doctor ratings when I found my former doctor who had been dead for 8 years still listed as active and taking new patients..amazing.  This was HealthGrades who now has been bought by a marketing firm, so will we see a clean up there or more marketing?  Do these surveys and ranking sites really hold the value that every states...good question and further substantiates the increase of "flawed data" online.  I call it the Attack of the Killer Algorithms and thus started a series with public examples.
 
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2010/09/healthgrades-and-other-md-rating-and.html
 
Killer Algorithm links....
 
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2012/02/attack-of-killer-algorithmsdigest-links.html



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