Clearly, the Michelin guide's ratings system is superior, since they
only have 3 stars. <g> Of course, 99.99% of restaurants are beneath
their notice and receive no star, so they're only providing ratings
from excellent to superlative. Which is actually a good way of
controlling your ratings.
If I'm being asked to give ratings, I tend to prefer a system that's
spelled out. For example:
1 -- I'll never shop here again, you suck
2 -- It would take a major sale to convince me to shop here again
3 -- I will probably shop here again
4 -- I'll definitely shop here again, and recommend you to friends
5 -- Please, take all my money, I love you so much
I think spelling out the ratings prevents me from having to think too
hard about it ("hmm, is it a 6 or a 7?"). You might also shame people
into not giving you such a lousy rating by using over-the-top humor.
Movie/book ratings are always hard because you can either rate all
movies against each other or you can rate within genre. So, Eragon
might get a 1/10 compared to movies overall, but a 4/10 compared to
other fantasy movies. I've also noticed that I tend to rate movies
higher if I had low expectations and lower if I had high
expectations. One might get better results if you asked people to
rate movies compared to other movies. That way you can control
whether they're within genre, for example.
-- Kim
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Kim Bieler Graphic Design
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