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I do find IMDB's ratings breakdown fascinating to explore, though. For example, you can look at the 50 Shades films or A Dog's Purpose or (especially) Gunday a
by philh 10y ago
I do find IMDB's ratings breakdown fascinating to explore, though.
For example, you can look at the 50 Shades films or A Dog's Purpose or (especially) Gunday and have a pretty good idea that lots people are giving them bad ratings without having seen the films. (Their weighted average ratings are supposed to combat that, but they don't seem to be doing a very good job.)
- kartickv 10y agoInteresting point. Would polarised reviews make you less or more likely to watch a film (or download an app or whatever)? In other words, two items with the same average, but different distributions.
- sterex 10y agoActually, Netflix is poised in a better position to filter between people who just rated the item vs people rating it AFTER viewing it (for a minimum duration). The latter class of people will have have more weight attached to their voting.
- philh 10y agoThat's true, but it doesn't sound as fun to poke around in. (Obviously, "collect a dataset that philh finds interesting" should not be a business goal of Netflix. I'm not suggesting this is a reason to keep the star ratings. It's just a thing that I like about having ratings more detailed than yes-no.)