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The problem with 1-10 is that the middle of the scale is 5.5, so you can’t give a neutral rating with a whole number. But 1-5 is often insufficient resolution
by wlesieutre 3y ago
The problem with 1-10 is that the middle of the scale is 5.5, so you can’t give a neutral rating with a whole number.
But 1-5 is often insufficient resolution (unless you do decimals, in which case it’s too much resolution), so the best scale is 0-10.
- timthelion 3y agoit's good not to be able to give a neuteral rating, if there is a center lazy raters skew neutral.
- ReactiveJelly 3y agoIf there's 100+ dimensions, quantizing to ~2.3 bits might be fine.
- Adverblessly 3y agoFor rating media I (internally) do 1-10 with 5 in the middle! 1 is worst, 5 is neutral, 9 is best and 10 is "personal favourite". This goes really well with the fact that not everything I really like is actually great so I can acknowledge that by giving it a spot to the side in its own category :)
- wlesieutre 3y ago0-10 is exactly like that, but with the matching acknowledgement that sometimes a thing just deserves no points and scoring it a 1 would be too generous.
- rasz 3y agoAs an avid reader of nineties gaming magazines the real life scale is 0-100 with middle somewhere above 75.
- stavros 3y agoOr as a Google Maps user, the scale is 1-5 with the middle being 4.5.