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- Tue Jun 05, 2018 1:25 am
- Forum: Filmmakers
- Topic: What proportion of your ranked movies are by women?
- Replies: 145
- Views: 145016
Re: What proportion of your ranked movies are by women?
Why do you ask? Are you sexist? Personally I don't care what gender the director is. If I like a film, I like a film, or are you implying we need some kind of affirmative action for female directors? The simple fact is males (in general) are more driven in several different areas of life, mostly bec...
- Tue Jun 05, 2018 12:52 am
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: New user: A question about percentiles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8451
Re: New user: A question about percentiles
I think matching similar tastes using tiers like you suggest would be the best way to go. The only problem I see with it is the situation where two movies may be separated by only few points, but lie in different tiers. These movies should probably be a match but because they lie in different tiers ...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: New user: A question about percentiles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8451
Re: New user: A question about percentiles
The mistake was probably allowing people to use any arbitrary rating system they like, and then thinking you could normalize them all with clever math. A more reliable way to have some choices might be to have several different rating systems to choose from; 0-100, 0-10, 0-5 and you could then easil...
- Mon Jun 04, 2018 7:40 am
- Forum: General Questions
- Topic: New user: A question about percentiles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8451
New user: A question about percentiles
Hi all, I'm new here and am so far am enjoying playing around with the site but I have a question about percentiles. But before I begin, I apologize if this is a common question, and if so just a link to the relevant thread would be much appreciated. I was unable to find one in my search. Now I know...