Think First

Five MFin’ Stars!

I have learned from organizing my iTunes library, that you need to be more honest with yourself when rating things for those ratings to have any meaning.

It’s no wonder all sorts of stupid videos show up on the Most Popular list at YouTube. Nobody seems to know how to rate anything but five stars or one star. Everywhere you go it’s like this. Go to any online store, Yelp, the iTunes App Store, whatever. About all the ratings tell you is that something either definitely sucks or that it probably doesn’t suck, but you have no real idea of how good it may be.

People rate things based on irrelevant attributes. “Yeah, this hard drive sucks because it got damaged in shipping and they wouldn’t overnight me a new one!” What does that have to do with the quality of the drive? “Yo, this place is the bomb. The waitress was super hot!” Um, so that means they have good food there?