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Published · transcript-backedBlake Scholl: evaluation
19 Nov 2025 Conversations with Tyler Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference
“I don’t know the answer to that because there’s such a financial incentive to stuff the review ballot box.”
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- Blake Scholl
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- evaluation
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- 19 Nov 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Given that you worked on Groupon, surely in the shower, at least, you’ve thought about whether we can improve the quality of online reviews. Is that hopeless at current margins? A long time ago, some of them were useful. Is there anything we can do there, or we just need to write it off? It needs to be reinvented. I mean, everything is four and a half stars, right? I think percentile ranks would be a really useful thing to do. This is in the top 5%, this is in the bottom 5%, and you get away from the everything’s four and a half stars. Then there’s a very different problem, which is how you get good quality inputs. I don’t know the answer to that because there’s such a financial incentive to stuff the review ballot box. Given that the British and the French did the Concorde SST to begin with, is there now in those places residual interest in supersonic civilian transport, or no, that’s just gone, that tradition?…
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