In practice, I think that one can run analysis, if all the data is present, and filter out endorsements from people who endorse indiscriminately.
After all, one can assume that people will filter into two main categories:
1. People who treat endorsement as a reputation thing and won't endorse someone whose skills they cannot personally vouch for.
2. People who treat endorsement as a "friendly" thing and will endorse their friends regardless of their knowledge of the friends' actual skills
People in cat #2 will tend to do it a lot, which should make a program that wants to use endorsements professionally not -that- hard to filter those out.
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Date: 2012-11-09 04:48 pm (UTC)In practice, I think that one can run analysis, if all the data is present, and filter out endorsements from people who endorse indiscriminately.
After all, one can assume that people will filter into two main categories:
1. People who treat endorsement as a reputation thing and won't endorse someone whose skills they cannot personally vouch for.
2. People who treat endorsement as a "friendly" thing and will endorse their friends regardless of their knowledge of the friends' actual skills
People in cat #2 will tend to do it a lot, which should make a program that wants to use endorsements professionally not -that- hard to filter those out.