POLL: Explain the 1 to 10 scale for me

[Schadenfreude]

Alright, the 1 to 10 scale is pretty simple, right? Used to rate people of the opposite sex, food, basically everything that's open to opinion can be turned into a 1 to 10 scale.

So what's your scale like? In my scale, the "1" and "10" cannot exist; that is, they're the perfects - "perfectly good" and "perfectly bad" and the rating curve is on a bell-curve.

So my GF argues that my scale is really a "2 to 9" but I'd argue that 1 and 10 have to be included because they're the examples of which all others strive to be (not in those particular words, but whatever ) - and she insists that, because she either likes someting or not, he curvature is more akin to a parabola.

Your explanation?

 

[Saint Nick]

I voted

I sometimes rate things 1-10, with 1 being the worst, 10 being the best. I could rate anything. But I don't use this system often. I usually just come out and say "Oh xxx product is good" or "This xxx pencil is really dull".

Something like that, I don't compare my adjectives to numbers.

 

[clamum]

I'd use numbers 1 to 10... and the curvature is neither bell nor parabola... if something's real good, it's a 10, real bad it's a 1, average it's a 5. Equal distribution

 

[tweakmm]

1 and 10's both exist and don't exist in theory. In practice if something really really really bad or really really really good it might get a 1 or 10.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: clamum
I'd use numbers 1 to 10... and the curvature is neither bell nor parabola... if something's real good, it's a 10, real bad it's a 1, average it's a 5. Equal distribution

See, I disagree. An 8 is bounds better than a 7 and a 7 is bounds better than a 6.

 

[tweakmm]

I'm very upset with your final poll. Even though there might or might not be 1 or 10, they are still included.

I'd smack anyone in the face who said "alright, on a scale of 2 to 9" Because then, arn't 2 and 9 the extremes?

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: clamum
I'd use numbers 1 to 10... and the curvature is neither bell nor parabola... if something's real good, it's a 10, real bad it's a 1, average it's a 5. Equal distribution

See, I disagree. An 8 is bounds better than a 7 and a 7 is bounds better than a 6.

Haha

No for me a number above or below is better or worse but not by a huge degree. I just define 1 as being sh!tty and 10 as being awesome, the rest fills in

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I'm very upset with your final poll. Even though there might or might not be 1 or 10, they are still included.

I'd smack anyone in the face who said "alright, on a scale of 2 to 9" Because then, arn't 2 and 9 the extremes?

Exactly, I would think 2 and 9 just would become the extremes if 1 and 10 are gotten rid of

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I'm very upset with your final poll. Even though there might or might not be 1 or 10, they are still included.

I'd smack anyone in the face who said "alright, on a scale of 2 to 9" Because then, arn't 2 and 9 the extremes?

Exactly, I would think 2 and 9 just would become the extremes if 1 and 10 are gotten rid of

Meh, met you complainers halfway

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Schadenfreude

Originally posted by: clamum

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I'm very upset with your final poll. Even though there might or might not be 1 or 10, they are still included.

I'd smack anyone in the face who said "alright, on a scale of 2 to 9" Because then, arn't 2 and 9 the extremes?

Exactly, I would think 2 and 9 just would become the extremes if 1 and 10 are gotten rid of

Meh, met you complainers halfway

Just thinking about what it means now makes my head hurt.
HOW IS 9 10 when it's really 9??!?!?!

 

[JDrake]

I'm not voting until you add the 10 option to the last poll.

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: joedrake
I'm not voting until you add the 10 option to the last poll.

Or a 1 option.


(I'm not voting 1... I SWEAR!):heart:

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: clamum
I'd use numbers 1 to 10... and the curvature is neither bell nor parabola... if something's real good, it's a 10, real bad it's a 1, average it's a 5. Equal distribution

See, I disagree. An 8 is bounds better than a 7 and a 7 is bounds better than a 6.

Same. I work on a logarithmic type scale.

1 = 2^1
2 = 2^2
3 = 2^3
....
9 = 2^9
10 = 2^10

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: joedrake
I'm not voting until you add the 10 option to the last poll.

Or a 1 option.


(I'm not voting 1... I SWEAR!):heart:

No way - that skews the validity of the scale!
Integrity, people!

Anyways, I said the scale is by my standard. So, tough.

(I swear, people would so confuse me for a bureaucrat the way I take nonsensical things so seriously )

 

[alimoalem]

i voted strictly 1-10 because that's what a 1 to 10 scale is; a 1 to 10 scale.

curvature i voted parabola. usually (from my experiences) when the 1-10 scale is used, one generally compares the thing being compared to only 1 or 2 other things so if it's better than the other thing, it's a 9 or 10. if it's worse, well, it's worse. but i actually keep my answers mostly from 3-8 with an occasional 1, 2, 9 and 10. but they are used

frequency of use? not too often really

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Schadenfreude
(I swear, people would so confuse me for a bureaucrat the way I take nonsensical things so seriously )

You're not a bureaucrat? I could have sworn you were. For some reason that's always stuck in my mind.

 

[HombrePequeno]

I consider it more like a school grading system. Anything below 60% is failing. That means I would not have sex with anything under a 6 (and admit to it).

I do make use of 1 and 10 but those are extremely rare occasions.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: Schadenfreude
So what's your scale like? In my scale, the "1" and "10" cannot exist; that is, they're the perfects - "perfectly good" and "perfectly bad" and the rating curve is on a bell-curve.

1 = the worst I've ever seen or had of something.
10 = the best I've ever seen or had of anything.

Thus, over time, as more things are experienced, calibrations to previois ratings are needed. Until I tried St Bernardous abt 12, I used to consider Hoegaarden a 10. Now I consider Hoegaarden to only be a 9 point 8.
On the contrary, I used to think Bud Lite was a 1. However, after I tried a Natty ice, Bud lite became an instant 2.

The vast majority fits between 4 and 7 for me. Examples would be brews like Samuel Adams, Killians, Liene's Red, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale, and Bass Ale.

 

[gamepad]

If something is good, I say it's 11 or higher out of 10.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Thus, over time, as more things are experienced, calibrations to previois ratings are needed. Until I tried St Bernardous abt 12, I used to consider Hoegaarden a 10. Now I consider Hoegaarden to only be a 9 point 8.
On the contrary, I used to think Bud Lite was a 1. However, after I tried a Natty ice, Bud lite became an instant 2.

The vast majority fits between 4 and 7 for me. Examples would be brews like Samuel Adams, Killians, Liene's Red, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale, and Bass Ale.

You need to try more beer, Hoegaarden is clearly in the high 8's and no higher.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
Thus, over time, as more things are experienced, calibrations to previois ratings are needed. Until I tried St Bernardous abt 12, I used to consider Hoegaarden a 10. Now I consider Hoegaarden to only be a 9 point 8.
On the contrary, I used to think Bud Lite was a 1. However, after I tried a Natty ice, Bud lite became an instant 2.

The vast majority fits between 4 and 7 for me. Examples would be brews like Samuel Adams, Killians, Liene's Red, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale, and Bass Ale.

You need to try more beer, Hoegaarden is clearly in the high 8's and no higher.

Indeed I do. I've probably only tried two or three hundred.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I rate everything with respect to standard deviations with respect to a normal distribution; it makes things much easier.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: gamepad
If something is good, I say it's 11 or higher out of 10.

So you're saying that your sclae is not strictly from 1 to 10.

 

[dullard]

I use the full 1.0 to 10.0 scale. A 10.01 is so impossibly perfect that nothing will ever reach it. Thus 10.0 is as good as humanily possible (remembering that perfection at 10.01 is impossible).

Conversely, a 0.99 is imposibly perfectly bad. Thus a 1.0 is as bad as humanly possible.

I'm in a flattened bell curve. Most are in the 3-7 range, but there still are some at the low 1s and high 9s.

 

[n yusef]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Originally posted by: Schadenfreude
So what's your scale like? In my scale, the "1" and "10" cannot exist; that is, they're the perfects - "perfectly good" and "perfectly bad" and the rating curve is on a bell-curve.

1 = the worst I've ever seen or had of something.
10 = the best I've ever seen or had of anything.

Thus, over time, as more things are experienced, calibrations to previois ratings are needed. Until I tried St Bernardous abt 12, I used to consider Hoegaarden a 10. Now I consider Hoegaarden to only be a 9 point 8.
On the contrary, I used to think Bud Lite was a 1. However, after I tried a Natty ice, Bud lite became an instant 2.

The vast majority fits between 4 and 7 for me. Examples would be brews like Samuel Adams, Killians, Liene's Red, Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale, and Bass Ale.

lol