&gt; Even more bizarre is how they predict how many stars you&#x27;ll give something, which seems fairly good. <i>And then go ahead and recommend items with few predicted stars</i><p>To play the devils&#x27; advocate<p>* It&#x27;s good for the user because their algorithm is not perfect and you might actually enjoy the &#x27;few predicted stars&#x27; movie<p>* It&#x27;s good for the algorithm because it allows fine-tuning in the cases of false-negatives and adds more data points<p>* having only high predicted stars in your list will probably move your Overton window on what&#x27;s good&#x2F;bad.