<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Gigaom]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://gigaom.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Colleen Taylor]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://search.gigaom.com/author/colleentaylor/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Is it time to retire the 5-star rating system?]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[Thanks to the rating systems in place on such popular websites as Yelp, Amazon and eBay, many people are comfortable evaluating things in absolute terms: a two-star restaurant, a B movie and so on. But new MIT research says this approach is fundamentally flawed.
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