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1 HN user recommended this in 2017, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2017, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
So on Amazon page we see the distribution in addition to the average score. People clearly either love it or hate it.
https://www.amazon.com/Inconvenient-Truth-Al-Gore/dp/B00AB0S...
Plus it skews toward the positive, since we would expect a verified buyer is more likely to be someone that already approves.
On the other hand, films that everyone thinks are OK are still indistinguishable from a film I may either love or hate. This is not a flaw, but inherent in the idea of ratings itself.
I don't see bimodal distributions as a problem, but hiding them might be.