A Scaling Idea
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Topic: A Scaling Idea
Posted By: Negoba
Subject: A Scaling Idea
Date Posted: September 21 2009 at 15:10
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To put in perspective how rare 1's and 5's should be I like to think of the 5 points as being a 0-10 scale
1 2 3 4 5
0 2.5 5 7.5 10
This puts the separations at:
1 = 0-1.25
2 = 1.26-3.75
3 = 3.76-6.25
4 = 6.26-8.75
5 = 8.76-10
I see that I probably need some of my 5 star albums to the 4 star category. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: September 21 2009 at 15:14
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Says nothing about how scarce your ratings should be. Why are people convinced you should only have a certain amount of 5 star ratings. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: September 21 2009 at 15:20
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There is definitely a tendency to want to review your favorites, and not spend time to really listen to music you don't like. (Both of which skews your list up) But an 8.5/10 album really probably does belong as a 4 star, and I'm not sure all of my ratings reflect that.
I'm not changing anything for awhile though, I'd rather do new reviews...  ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:01
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It's an interesting concept though. When I write my (very) few reviews I'll try to remember to use it. I'm feeling a review coming up in the next few weeks so I'll test it out then. Why make it the scale you have instead of, say, 0-2, 2.01-4, 4.01-6, 6.01-8 and 8.01-10 though?
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:03
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The point is that equal scaling makes in this way makes 1's and 5's harder to get than 2,3,4 which is the express intent of the site. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:11
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Oh, so it's purposefully giving 1 star and 5 star only 1.25 possible points instead of the 2.5 that 2-4 get, I see.
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:26
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I don't see how that scale applies to the 3 star rating, which is supposed to be used for "good" albums. When I see a scale that is out of 10, I would not think that an album is good if it has a rating of 4/10. It doesn't fit the description, or at least how I interpret it. I guess my scaling system would be something closer to this: 1 stars-0 to 1.99 2 stars- 2 to 4.99 3 stars- 5 to 7.99 4 stars-8 to 8.99 5 stars- 9 to 10 Not as balanced as yours, but it roughly fits my existing ratings of albums. It's actually quite unbalanced actually.  Everyone will interpret the star ratings differently, which is why I just let the accompanying star descriptions guide my grading. Just my 2 cents.  |
Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: September 22 2009 at 14:14
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Your scale is probably where alot people rate from their gut. I was trying to do something a little more analytical, which is certainly not necessarily better. ------------- You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all. |
Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: September 23 2009 at 04:31
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Everyone rates differently, your scale seems nice.
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