Can you help me with this? I made an error with my rankings

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jpsala
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Can you help me with this? I made an error with my rankings

Post by jpsala »

Hello everyone. I started rating movies on a scale of 0 to 100, which seemed logical to me at the time. I was trying to get better matches and improve my recommendations.
However, when I rate a movie 75, it now displays as "59th," which looks incorrect. I would prefer it to show as "75th," which would be more accurate.
Maybe it's not a real issue, or I'm thinking in the wrong way, in that case, I can just forget about it.


Thank you in advance.

tev
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Re: Can you help me with this? I made an error with my rankings

Post by tev »

TL;DR: I don't think it's a problem, but if it bothers you aesthetically, you could rate more movies you don't like.

Having an even distribution of high and low scored films will make the percentile more closely match the score you enter. In your case you have rated many films high, but not many low. You could get the percentile closer by adding more ratings for films with low scores.

For instance, if there are movies that you remember starting and just not bothering to finish because you didn't like them enough, you could add low ratings for those.

You can see the distribution more visually by going to the page at https://www.criticker.com/ratings/jpsala/: see there are 12 pages of ratings above or at the "50" score, and only 6 pages below or at the "50" score.

Alternatively, I suppose you could export your ratings, replace them with the percentiles in a spreadsheet program like Excel, then import those as your new scores, so for example a film you currently have scored 70 would be scored 50.

Having an even distribution isn't really necessary, though, as I understand it, because your close TCIs will just end up being other accounts that score with a similar distribution. If you look at the graphs in the thread at https://www.criticker.com/forum/viewtop ... f=6&t=4247 you'll see there are other accounts with rating distributions like yours, so you've got plenty of company.

SinnerMa
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Re: Can you help me with this? I made an error with my rankings

Post by SinnerMa »

Ignore the site's ranking value, just score them for yourself and others with a high value given to the ones you like. Esp as you now know how the site works (or doesn't!)

Alsweider
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Re: Can you help me with this? I made an error with my rankings

Post by Alsweider »

The percentile is very helpful because it indicates how a rating compares to your other ratings. This makes it possible to bring the ratings of different users with varying rating patterns onto a common scale. It is used to calculate recommendations. As others have already suggested, it is hardly sensible to try artificially synchronising it with your ratings. More details can be found here: https://www.criticker.com/explain/

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