Product review rating

thelonegroover

Why do you often give product reviews a mark of say 4.5? Is this due to only rating products out of 5? And the differences between 0 and 5 not being enough.
Would it be more logical to mark out of 10. So 0.5/5 = 1/10, 3.5/5 = 7/10 and 5/5 = 10/10.

supersonic

It's changed back and forth a few times over the years, with at least WMB and MBUK using both methods.

I think the reasoning is that many people relate to a "5 star" review more - indeed they are marked out of 5.

Jeff Jones

Correct. It was discussed and decided a few years ago that all our publications should use the same scoring system (Cycling Plus used to score out of 10, for example). Partly for consistency on BikeRadar, partly because more people seemed to like and relate to scores out of 5. There's also a policy to try not to give half marks unless it's necessary, which seems to be quite often!

thelonegroover

Jeff Jones wrote:

Correct. It was discussed and decided a few years ago that all our publications should use the same scoring system (Cycling Plus used to score out of 10, for example). Partly for consistency on BikeRadar, partly because more people seemed to like and relate to scores out of 5. There's also a policy to try not to give half marks unless it's necessary, which seems to be quite often!

Thanks for your replies. I can understand the rationale of scoring out of 5, however as Jeff states, half marks are awarded too often. So really, a change your half mark policy should be considered, or mark out of 10.