Yea it does help. I can say the star rating is just an average of up and down. So if there were 10 votes and the rating was 3 out of 5, I can assume that means

Yea it does help. I can say the star rating is just an average of up and down. So if there were 10 votes and the rating was 3 out of 5, I can assume that means there were 6 up votes and 4 down votes for a score of 2. This sounds promising.