On: Ask HN: Recommend me a course on Coursera

[reilly3000]

There should be less ratings of advanced materials, and there should be less coursework. Advanced study is the long tail of learning.

[harperlee → reilly3000]

That should not affect the rating by much with an appropriate sorting. See: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

[bjterry → harperlee]

I would expect people who take advanced courses to rate systematically differently from people who take beginner courses. For comparisons between similar courses it's probably fine, but would be hard to use the scores to compare the value of beginner courses to advanced courses.

Of course, even the definition of better here is so ill-defined it probably is of no practical significance.