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6799354 No.6799354 [Reply] [Original]

I feel like every book under the sun has a 3.8 - 4.1 rating on Goodreads.

>> No.6799364

>>6799354

no

Moby Dick -- 3.4
Scarlet Letter (and most Hawthorne books) -- even lower

Goodreads can't understand genius from more than 50 years ago.

>> No.6799526

>>6799364
These are books children in the USA are forced to read throughout school. Ratings should only be looked at on a relative scale which is relative to a single user. They only have the average for all ratings on goodreads because every other similar site does it.

>> No.6799555

stirner got a 4.1

seems legitimate

>> No.6799562

>>6799526
>books children in the USA are forced to read throughout school.
>Moby Dick

>> No.6799595

>>6799562
yes, I was required to read Moby Dick in middle school
it's really not unusual

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6799946

>>6799354
Not EVERY book

>> No.6800159

>>6799364
>>6799946
Is there a worse public rating site than Goodreads?

>> No.6800414

>>6799595
unabridged? i have my doubts.

>> No.6800707

>>6799946
>Deep Books

I really do want to kill myself

>> No.6800733

>>6800159

Uh, amazon?

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6800754

>>6799946

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>>6799946
> Deep Books

What the fuck are deep books?

>> No.6800771

> Reads John Green

"These books are DEEP yo"

>> No.6800778

>>6799354

here's your answer, op: >>6800733

once online shopping became a thing, people were trained into the trend of always giving things 4-5 stars or whatever, as all the ratings were already artificially boosted by fakes and people would feel bad giving a lower rating than everybody else. this was reinforced by the extension of rating things to restaurants, professors, doctors, etc and the idea that a rating could be considered legally as public defamation.

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>>6799354
the inherent issue with Goodreads and IMDB and similar sites, is that people only rate what they choose to watch/read, and they choose to watch/read things based off of what they think that they will enjoy. This means that ratings are likely to be high for everything.

A way to fix this would be to require people to have an average rating of 5 or 2.5 throughout their ratings, a required curve for their ratings to be added to the public consensus.

My trick for judging things on Goodreads ratings is to treat 2.5 as 0 and 5 as 5, and for imdb I treat 5 as 0 and 10 as 10.

Also do you have a moment to discuss Jesus Christ?

>> No.6800810

RateYourMusic is a god-tier rating site depending on what you're looking for. It's too bad their users are all either middle-aged dadrockers, neckbeards, or avant-teen hipsters.

>> No.6800814

>>6800810
discogs!

>> No.6800825

infinite jest has a 4.33

:^)