{"id":562,"date":"2007-08-07T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T01:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/08\/07\/half-stars-considered-harmful\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T01:47:02","slug":"half-stars-considered-harmful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/08\/07\/half-stars-considered-harmful","title":{"rendered":"Half Stars Considered Harmful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating and surprising (at least to me) observation on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.netflix.com\/2007\/08\/todd-speaks-12-stars.html\">Netflix Community Blog about user demand for half-star movie ratings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I learned from months of testing this across the country: when we make the \u00c2\u00bd star options possible, we get fewer ratings. Significantly fewer ratings. We have argued these results internally for some time, and our best guess is that the complexity of doubling the number of choices from 5 to 10 deters many people from rating, so they just give up. (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>3 stars? No, 3 \u00c2\u00bd stars.. no\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 3 stars\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 no\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 oh forget it<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating and surprising (at least to me) observation on the Netflix Community Blog about user demand for half-star movie ratings: So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I learned from months of testing this across the country: when we make the \u00c2\u00bd star options possible, we get fewer ratings. Significantly fewer ratings. We have argued these results internally for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}