On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Craig Ogg wrote:
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...
As is, hReview sets the default lower bound at 1 (which is what most
examples in the wild use, despite what http://microformats.org/wiki/
reviews-formats seemed to indicate). I don't think there's a case for
changing this.
-ryan
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Ryan King
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