<story><title>Why Ratings Systems Don&apos;t Work</title><url>http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/08/22/why-ratings-systems-dont-work/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_henry_paulson</author><text>Terrible article.  Calling histograms awful, based on nothing more than an opinion.&lt;p&gt;Then trying to conclude that some convoluted scatter plot system makes more sense is laughable.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, this system is still just a star rating system.  This would be no different than having two histograms side by side.. assuming, of course, that you&apos;d even want to rate different aspects of the same thing.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t even imagine scatter plots on amazon, or trying to convince the general public that &quot;it makes more sense&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>todd3834</author><text>Terrible comment. I found the article interesting. As someone who has played around with many different types of rating systems, I applaud their effort at trying something different. Sounds like you area little too emotionally invested in histograms. I&apos;m not even going to ask why.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Ratings Systems Don&apos;t Work</title><url>http://goodfil.ms/blog/posts/2012/08/22/why-ratings-systems-dont-work/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>s_henry_paulson</author><text>Terrible article.  Calling histograms awful, based on nothing more than an opinion.&lt;p&gt;Then trying to conclude that some convoluted scatter plot system makes more sense is laughable.&lt;p&gt;Not to mention, this system is still just a star rating system.  This would be no different than having two histograms side by side.. assuming, of course, that you&apos;d even want to rate different aspects of the same thing.&lt;p&gt;I can&apos;t even imagine scatter plots on amazon, or trying to convince the general public that &quot;it makes more sense&quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vhf</author><text>&lt;i&gt;This would be no different than having two histograms side by side..&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes it would, and the article shows why and how. Scatter plots are easy to read (for comp./math. educated people). Two histograms side by side are easy to read (and find correlations) for nobody.</text></comment>