Quote from: Kradan on Oct 25, 2021, 07:14:38 PM
Quote from: RidgeTop on Oct 25, 2021, 06:52:25 PM
And with 5 stars (how we used to do things around here), if you're going with half stars, it's really just another 10 scale system.
Yep
Yeah, you're going to have the same differences described with a 5 point or 10 point scale.
Maybe we should go to 7 point system!
Quote from: RidgeTop on Oct 25, 2021, 06:52:25 PM
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Oct 25, 2021, 01:31:22 PM
Just look at Rotten Tomatoes as the way the U.S. looks at things. Anything under 60% or under 6/10 is a failure and represents just degrees of failure. Because basically... if your product gets as many things wrong as it does right... it does not pass muster.
RT is really more of a two point system, fresh and rotten. They do their own thing.
Sure, the individual critic determines if their review results in a recommend or not recommend, fresh or rotten, based on where they individually determine that fail line is (or RT will determine that for them if left undetermined)...
...but the Rotten Tomatoes side, they are an aggregator of reviews, of recommends and not-recommends from critics, that is percentage based.
And 60% or 6/10 is their pass/fail line, their fresh or rotten decider, not 50%. If it falls below that 60%, it's all degrees of failure/rotten. Now mainting 75% or higher gets you that certified fresh. We get excited to see a movie in that 90% range, and we're more doubtful of a film that has 10% positive than 45%.
So it's all about that pass/fail line. And Grading/Rating is synonymous to so many people. Do I think often it's regional, and often always going to be perceived differently based on where you live and your educational system? Sure. Here in the US, 5 out of 10, half wrong / half right equals failure. It seems in the UK, not so much.
Probably the best way to overcome all this where the podcast is concerned is attach a word to every grading number "9 = Excellent" spoken in every podcast, so no matter what perspective someone is coming from region based or not, they know exactly what someone means. Or drop the number entirely, considering it's coming from a spoken media. A simple fix I think.