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This is a pet peeve of mine about star ratings. Visually, allowing 1 to 5 stars inflates the way ratings look, because the first star is always present, even f
by nostromo 6y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine about star ratings.
Visually, allowing 1 to 5 stars inflates the way ratings look, because the first star is always present, even for the worst products.
Imagine if it was pie chart or a bar chart: the lowest rating would look like 20%, not 0%.
Or imagine a product where 50% of people gave it the lowest rating (1 star) and the rest gave it the highest rating (5 stars). This would be presented as a 3/5 star item, which visually appears quite a bit better than its real rating (50%).
- ttymck 6y agoWhy can you not normalize the scale to 0-4 stars?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThat's a consequence of the UI pattern - when you use the same widget as indicator and input, you need some way to represent "no vote yet" - plus, it would be hard to click/tap "no stars". It could be done better but alas, minimalism is the name of the game.
- amelius 6y agoYeah but if I see 0 stars the result is that I'm assuming that there were no votes.
- mrlala 6y agoIn practice you would never have 100% be 0 stars if there was any significant number of ratings.
- ttymck 6y agoMany platforms I have seen (Amazon Prime Video comes to mind) use: **** (XX,XXX votes) when displaying ratings (meaning average 4 star rating, for XX,XXX total votes) -- it is succinct and informative.
- amelius 6y agoIn that case, I might assume that the website uses white/gray stars instead of yellow ones to denote a higher score.