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years ago, two parents went out to dinner later that night, the babysitter called and asked if she could put a blanket over the clown statue in the kids room. the dad said "get the kids out of the house and we'll call the police. we don't have a......clown statue." the statue was actually a serial killer that broke out of prison 5 years earlier. if you don't post this on ten photos, the clown will be in your bed with a chainsaw in his hand at 3 am.

scream is right though, "decent" shouldn't be under 50%, because 50% should mean "average" - for obvious reasons.

i did it

yeah there are none

if a 5/5 is a musical peak - greatest thing that has ever passed through your ears - then honestly a 2/5 really isn't so shabby

average means pretty much "not good but not bad either". It seems intuitive to put your "average" marker exactly in the middle of the scale. Anything less and it lacks something, anything more and it does something better than your "average" record.

I mean every scale can be explained and learnt (like "positive" scales) but IMO this one's the most immediately informative.

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"Besides, ratings are just arbitrary numbers"

why do people keep saying ratings are arbitrary numbers?



ar·bi·trar·y

ˈärbəˌtrerē/

adjective

adjective: arbitrary



based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.



rating albums is quite mostly often done because of personal reasons or based on the system of ratings in which you assign a number value to an album based on how much you enjoy it. saying the ratings/numbers are arbitrary indicates that there is no reason they were rated what they were which is just not true (unless someone is a dumbass and is really just rating randomly)

@Sachiko On sputnik there's at least a universal rating system that in theory should be followed by all the users. It's much harder on rym, where there's no suggestion as to what a rating should mean, and so somebody's "1.5 = decent" contributes to an average less than somebody else's "2.5 = poor".

average means pretty much "not good but not bad either".

It seems intuitive to put your "average" marker exactly in the middle of the scale.

that's actually just the actual definition of arbitrary tbh he is not wrong tbh

@treeqt notice that i didn't say "the best", but "the most intuitive". so your point is invaild

and yeah i know what "average" really means. i'm talking about the colloquial meaning

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ok here's another one

": not planned or chosen for a particular reason : not based on reason or evidence



: done without concern for what is fair or right"

it's pretty nice to find a definition that's perfectly convenient for the particular point you're trying to make. guess it just depends on your definition of arbitrary, of which there are obviously multiples. but the one above is how it was used by me and other people around me all my life so that's what I'm sticking w/ I guess.

you're vastly overstating the difference between words and numbers in this context tbh

average is a purely colloquial term aka the pinnacle of ambiguity

no it does not wtf

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"I don't think people rate with this in mind at all. Case in point, people rating bar sachiko a 1 after sampling 10 seconds. Is that done with a concern for what is fair and right? Hmmm...?"

that's a fair example of a rating being arbitrary.

I've seen people saying that all ratings are arbitrary, (which is also what started this) aka rated that particular rating without reason. so me loving symbolic is not the reason that I rated it a 5/5? huh interesting

i think you're strawmanning a bit here Sach

you are under the impression that this is somehow relevant to the point when in fact it actually is not

you can systematically arrange data obtained randomly

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"People will enjoy it for different reasons"



reasons



you said it



I guess you have a different definition of "arbitrary" than I do. I had never heard it used in that context until I saw someone on sput referring to ratings as "arbitrary".

The rating is a representation of your reaction, not the reaction itself.

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that doesn't make the rating arbitrary, based on the definition of arbitrary I've become accustomed to