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Histograms are useful int the case of items with a strong love/hate split.

The canonical example is the SICP ratings on Amazon: 3.5 average; 177 ratings, 96 five stars, 53 one stars.

http://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Prog...



Had to go look up that book. It's actually available free from MIT: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html


The videos of the lectures but the book authors (Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson) are also available for free.

Pick the MPEG1 versions. They are much heavier than the MPEG4 versions, but the text on the projected computer screen is at readable. IIRC, the MPEG4 are re-encoded versions of the MPEG1, which themselves were ripped from VHS.

http://archive.org/details/mit_ocw_sicp




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