At first I thought this was a joke. What a strange article. Just because Yelp's reviews can be analyzed like baseball statistics doesn't make it a proper treatm

At first I thought this was a joke. What a strange article. Just because Yelp's reviews can be analyzed like baseball statistics doesn't make it a proper treatment of the data. It's not even a good analogy; one set of numbers is a concrete measurement of a player's performance, while the other is an aggregate of people's opinions of the quality of a restaurant, not just it's burritos. It'd be one thing if Yelp set out to gather and aggregate people's opinions of burritos, but Yelp raters consider many other aspects of the restaurant, such as wait staff and cleanliness. I see no mention in the article of the author accounting for this in the adjusted burrito ratings (even saying adjusted burrito ratings makes me feel like a tool).