Personal ratings renormalization
My ratings are now extremely tightly distributed (I think; there's no way to see a histogram(?)) ... and they naturally get tighter over time, because I know if I change my rating scale I'll throw everything out of whack.
I'd love to (1) have a button to redistribute all my previous ratings onto a more uniform distribution, and (2) have a reference point for what these ratings mean for me, like a percentile or an example of a movie I've previously rated at that level (and maybe even one a half-star above and below!).
Interesting ideas!
Renormalizing is hard, since we would have to guess (e.g.) which of your 3 star ratings are really the “better” 3 star ratings that should be moved up.
Potentially we could explore a semi-automated interface (we make a guess, you get to fine-tune it) for renormalizing ratings.
The reference point ideas are interesting, but obviously present design challenges. We’ve done a bit of research work in this space, possibly we could promote these types of interfaces to movielens.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2507157.2507188
A histogram of your ratings is coming in the next release.
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nati commented
I agree with the idea - completely