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The verdict everyone reads before deciding whether your effort was worth the trouble.

means To look over something again carefully in order to assess, judge, or correct it — or the written assessment that results.

from From the Old French 'reveue,' literally 'a viewing again,' from 're-' ('again') plus 'veoir' ('to see'), which traces back to Latin 'videre,' to see. So at its root a review is simply a second look — the eye returning to make sure, the verdict born of that double glance.

star math
A single 1-star drop can sink a 4.8 average
peer pressure
Scientific review has rejected papers later proven correct
fake economy
Millions of online reviews are bought and bots
recency bias
People weight the latest review over hundreds before it
origin
From Latin for to see again, a second look
for instance

metacritic — aggregates reviews from 160+ publications with weighted scores for games, movies, tv

rotten tomatoes — film and tv review aggregator with tomatometer scores since 1998

yelp — crowdsourced business reviews with 215+ million reviews across 32 countries

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