S/D - Rating Schemes

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out of 10
out of 5 stars

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out of 100%
out of 4 stars
out of X stars with no half stars

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i give this thread 4 out of 5 knishes

― maura (maura), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Rating scales that go 1-7 tend to cluster much less around the middle-to-upper reaches.

― Douglas, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Destroy: School grade style rating systems. Especially the ones that stop at D.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

This sounds weird but I personally use out 10 for music and out of 4 stars for movies. Oh, and I really don't believe in 1's and 10's in music cuz no music is THAT universally bad or THAT universally good. But I still like the option for context.

― Anthony Miccio, Tuesday, 12 November 2002 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

cuz no music is THAT universally bad or THAT universally good

Rah! Radical subjectivism and I am happy. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Search: S/D

Destroy: everything else.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 20:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Dom: DEFINATELY

Also, multiple scales for one rating = no good

― Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

B-but I thought as far as we were concerned we only needed C or D?

My favourite was one used in the Comics Journal, by (if I remember rightly) Bob Fiore. He pointed out that someone said that the Ode On A Grecian Urn is worth any number of little old ladies' lives. He suggested that the humble comic book was only worth a maximum of five little old ladies, so it was really a five star rating system, but that is a very worthwhile gloss on same.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Pre-adolescent rating systems are best - "Would you rather a) listen to this forever b) felch your grandmother?" etc

― dave q, Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

You must have had a very scary pre-adolescence, Dave.

My favourite ratings system is the international competitive ice-skating one: points out of 10 for technical accuracy, then separately marked for artistic merit, then the marks from 7 different judges averaged. 9.9!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Moodys!

― Sam (chirombo), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I will never forget seeing this rating system for record reviews in Austin, TX. OK, it's just one to five stars, but....

***** John
**** Paul
*** George & Ringo
** Pete Best & Stu Sutcliffe
* Yoko

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

We used out of 10 scales and out of 7 scales for product evaluations and neither seemed to make any difference to clustering, Douglas. Some people swore by out-of-7 though.

I think more reviewers should have a 'Don't Know' option - when they're simply not sure what mark a record should get.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 13 November 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

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