Does that ever happen to you?
I mean, that you score films individually but then sometimes it's hard to compare them against each other or sometimes lower ranked films fare better in a direct comparison against better ranked films ?
Some of you might know this issue from sports. In tennis for example, Federer might do better against Djokovic,
and Djokovic might have the upper hand against Nadal, yet Nadal keeps winning against Federer ...
I often struggle with how to accurately score movies. This topic is part of a series dealing with voting-related problems, challenges, phenomenons and paradoxes — all as part of a quest whose end-goal is to correctly reflect my appreciation of movies when rating them:
- • On what basis do you rate films ?
- • The rock/paper/scissors paradox: ranking A>B and B>C but C>A ?
- • Do you change your ratings ?
- • How to deal with our changing taste over time ?
- • How do you rate movies seen long ago ?
- • How do you rate movies you have abandoned halfway through ?
- • How granular are your ratings?
- • Do you rate ridiculously bad movies 0 or >0 ?
- • RULES that help you decide how to vote
- • How do you account for the novelty factor and the chronological order in which you watched your movies ?
- • How do you handle the observer effect ?