On 22 Sep 2014, at 23:55, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > > on 2014-09-22 15:23 Larry Colen wrote >> (unless they are rated 1 star, no redeeming value) > > pardon me for a philosophical detour — are stars a measure of goodness, or is > it a 1-5 scale of really bad, somewhat bad, neutral, somewhat good, really > good?
Me no Likert B > > since they are stars, like one gives to school children or to generals, i > instinctively think one star means "somewhat good", and that's how i use it > for rating my own photos (no star means neutral and bad stuff gets the X); > but internet usage seems to be against me — a "one star review" means awful > stuff > > not that end-users generally have a choice about the symbol used, but for the > developers there's a semantic implication for design choices; if it doesn't > mean "good", why use stars? I use quasars B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
