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jgrahamc on Aug 22, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Ratings Systems Don't Work

I wish people would use a 5 or 7 point scale: http://blog.jgc.org/2007/12/seven-point-scale.html

sp332 on Aug 22, 2012 [–]

When it comes to anything subjective, ratings (like those histograms) tend to be bimodal http://zedshaw.com/essays/rubrics_and_the_bimodality_of_rati...

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