I analyzed the range of ratings on booking sites and it's pretty crazy

Airbnb goes just from 4.5 to 5 with a median of 5!

But most others aren't better, they all range from about 4 to 5, and almost all have a median of 4.25, with not many scores outside of it!

The best site in terms of honest ratings is actually Yelp, whatever they're doing it's working, it shows an actual normal distribution and ratings you can trust

Hotelist itself is a normal distribution with median at 3.5, which was my goal, most stays are average/okay which I'd consider 3.

From https://hotelist.com/stats#rating-by-site

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