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Rating systems: 5 stars vs. something else?
I've been reading a bit about rating systems lately.
Apparently 5-star rating systems are not good, since most people rate really high or really low. YouTube used to have a 5-star rating system and "the number of 5-star ratings greatly outnumbered all others, with 1-star a distant second." People also use half-stars a lot less than whole stars. On some site called MovieLens with millions of ratings "only 20% of all ratings are half-stars." Link here: A Better Way to Rate Films ________________ I found a very simple, but effective way of using ratings. Assign a verbal meaning to each point in the rating system. This is the 10-point system that RPGnet uses: 10 - One of the Best Ever 9 - Outstanding 8 - Very Good 7 - Good 6 - Above Average 5 - Average 4 - Almost Average 3 - Some flaws 2 - Poor 1 - Worthless (I use this now for rating my songs on iTunes (with half stars) and my mood affects the ratings less, which is good. Ratings 3 and 2 to me are "bad" and "very bad," respectively. Sadly I have less 5-star tracks than before.) Link here: Collective Choice: Experimenting with Ratings ________________ This is also worth reading: Is there a better alternative to the 5-star rating system? Many insightful answers with lots of examples. ________________ How do you go about ratings albums on VGMdb, movies on IMDB or anything else? Are you happy with VGMdb's 5-star rating system and how people use it? |
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