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Five Stars or Failure: How Ratings Mislead

In the 5/24/2015 Sunday New York Times, Maureen Dowd laments her Uber passenger rating of 4.2, which is apparently low enough to make it difficult for her to get a car sometimes. This makes it clear that Uber’s 1-through-5 star system doesn’t really have…


Your Children are a Product — Brand Them Accordingly

There’s a reason Samsung didn’t name their mobile phone products Frisbee that has nothing to do with the fact that Wham-o would probably sue them: if you search the internet for “Frisbee” you get Wham-o’s product from top to bottom in the…

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