Comments on: The Apologist: Numerical Scoring and Review Aggregators http://www.pixelsocks.com/2009/11/03/the-apologist-numerical-scoring-and-review-aggregators/ Where games go to find out what they're worth Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:34:57 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: icekatze http://www.pixelsocks.com/2009/11/03/the-apologist-numerical-scoring-and-review-aggregators/comment-page-1/#comment-41085 icekatze Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:27:54 +0000 http://www.pixelsocks.com/?p=2329#comment-41085 Years later, I still reference this article when I'm talking to people about the pitfalls of aggregating data into a single number. Years later, I still reference this article when I’m talking to people about the pitfalls of aggregating data into a single number.

]]> By: katiegreen http://www.pixelsocks.com/2009/11/03/the-apologist-numerical-scoring-and-review-aggregators/comment-page-1/#comment-5745 katiegreen Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:45:09 +0000 http://www.pixelsocks.com/?p=2329#comment-5745 You know those keen little bars that Amazon.com uses to show you how many people give a product a "5," and so forth? They're histograms. Histograms that have been turned on their side not to look scary to the non-math enabled populace. They do their job. You look at them, and BAM, you have a sense of how people like the product in question. Video games can be polarizing, and seeing the histogram is an intuitive way of communicating concepts like "bimodal distributions." You know those keen little bars that Amazon.com uses to show you how many people give a product a “5,” and so forth? They’re histograms. Histograms that have been turned on their side not to look scary to the non-math enabled populace.

They do their job. You look at them, and BAM, you have a sense of how people like the product in question. Video games can be polarizing, and seeing the histogram is an intuitive way of communicating concepts like “bimodal distributions.”

]]> By: Robin McArtistGirl http://www.pixelsocks.com/2009/11/03/the-apologist-numerical-scoring-and-review-aggregators/comment-page-1/#comment-5736 Robin McArtistGirl Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:09:17 +0000 http://www.pixelsocks.com/?p=2329#comment-5736 by the way, speaking of aggregators...Prince of Persia movie trailer! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dor/objects/664420/prince_of_persia_sands_of_time/videos/pop_mov_trl1_110209.html I see some value in numerical scores, but it depends on how they're done. I like them as a rule of thumb...they're never sure fire. But I guess I prefer one sentence summaries of opinion more. If that makes sense. by the way, speaking of aggregators…Prince of Persia movie trailer! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/dor/objects/664420/prince_of_persia_sands_of_time/videos/pop_mov_trl1_110209.html

I see some value in numerical scores, but it depends on how they’re done. I like them as a rule of thumb…they’re never sure fire. But I guess I prefer one sentence summaries of opinion more. If that makes sense.

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