I researched the international meaning of rating stars, to determine optimal setup for a reviews section on my website.
It turned out that people in different countries give very different meaning to star ratings. Its a cultural difference. In general, people from countries who are used to a 10 point rating system, will only give 5 stars for something that is excellent/can't get much better, while people who are from countries used to 5 point ratings will give 5 stars to anything decent. And there are many other variables.
People from Europe give much lower ratings than people from the USA. Simply because they are used to different meanings.
Stars really mean nothing in an international context. Unless you connect the stars to exact meanings.
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Originally Posted by Boofo
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Ratings are nice to have, but I doubt anyone actually uses them to determine if they will install something.
True. I only mind the star ratings, if there have been a substantial number of ratings and its still 2 stars or lower. That gives an indication that something may be off and is often reflected by posts in the modification thread.
12-30-2010, 01:08 PM
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