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by MarkBeronte
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...
by MarkBeronte
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 ...
by MarkBeronte
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...
by MarkBeronte
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...