Perhaps I need more coffee, but after reading these serious discussions on what the lower bound of a review is for quite some time I have to comment on the apparent absurdity of it.
If a friend told you that he would give a movie 3 out of 4 stars, would you really ask if he was starting from 0 or 1? Because, after all, if 0 is the lower bound that is a 80% rating (4th out of 5 possible positions) and if it is 1 is a 75% rating. Who would want to see a movie that only got a "C"? [1] I think ratings are almost all subjective and are all assumed to have the same lower bound which is always unstated. Given the microformats priniciples of covering the 80% case and no one seems to be able to come up with examples where people routinely state the lowerbound, I would suggest that it be removed from the format. Maybe I better go get that cup of coffee now... Craig [1] In the US when grading students on a bell curve, 60% = D, 70% = C, 80% = B, 90% = A _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
