Weighted rating

[EmilyMiller]

I know we all (apart from some enlightened souls) worry way too much about ratings.

But, for another thread, I downloaded my story list to Excel this morning, so as to add the word counts.

I also calculated my weighted rating, which I haven’t looked at in a while.

[If it isn’t obvious, multiply each story rating by the vote count and add this all up, divide it by the sum of just the vote counts.]

It’s 4.43 overall, and 4.55 if I exclude my “experiment” with Harper’s Reckoning, which is a total outlier (rated 3.32 with no other story under 4).

I know it’s a meaningless stat, but kinda fun.

How about you?

Em

 

[Altissimus]

[If it isn’t obvious, multiply each story rating by the vote count and add this all up, divide it by the sum of just the vote counts.]

Seems rather arbitrary. Favours older stories, stand-alone stories that get higher votes than series (which tend to get lower votes as you go) and favours categories with higher vote counts (LW, Incest) vs those that don't.

I do track average rating across all stories (total rating / number of stories), coz it's an easy way to see if, over time, folk enjoy them more.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Seems rather arbitrary. Favours older stories, stand-alone stories that get higher votes than series (which tend to get lower votes as you go) and favours categories with higher vote counts (LW, Incest) vs those that don't.

I do track average rating across all stories (total rating / number of stories), coz it's an easy way to see if, over time, folk enjoy them more.

It’s meant to be fun, not science, hun .

Em

 

[Winter_Fare]

4.52, excluding poetry.

 

[Trionyx]

It’s meant to be fun, not science, hun .

Em

I’ve done the same thing for shits and giggles, knowing full well it isn’t science. Glad to see I’m not the only one.

 

[Bamagan]

I turned off most of my ratings, so I guess I have to multiply by X... then divide by zero...
Oh, shit!
Flee! Flee!
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[EmilyMiller]

I turned off most of my ratings, so I guess I have to multiply by X... then divide by zero...
Oh, shit!
Flee! Flee!
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/bh_accretiondisk_sim_stationary_websize.gif

You could maybe transpose to a Riemann Sphere.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

4.52, excluding poetry.

Pretty respectable .

Em

 

[Bamagan]

You could maybe transpose to a Riemann Sphere.

Em

It should definitely help for dealing with imaginary numbers

 

[EmilyMiller]

It should definitely help for dealing with imaginary numbers

Must resist overwhelming desire to define imaginary numbers .

Em

 

[Bamagan]

Must resist overwhelming desire to define imaginary numbers .

Em

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[EmilyMiller]

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I used to love math. Not so good at it as I’d like. My friend, who is doing a math degree in the UK, loses me easily. I’m much better at biology, but I still find math facscinating.

Em

 

[Bamagan]

I used to love math. Not so good at it as I’d like. My friend, who is doing a math degree in the UK, loses me easily. I’m much better at biology, but I still find math facscinating.

Em

Per the disagreement from yesterday, your friend must be doing a maths degree in the UK.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Per the disagreement from yesterday, your friend must be doing a maths degree in the UK.

Lest just say she’s doing mathematics, shall we? Spending the long weekend with mostly Brits as it is.

Em

 

[MelissaBaby]

Not sure if I did this right, but I got 4.76.

It seems about right, as my unweighted average is 4.80.

 

[Bamagan]

Lest just say she’s doing mathematics, shall we? Spending the long weekend with mostly Brits as it is.

Em

Pip pip, cheerio.

 

[SimonDoom]

I had never thought to do this.

The unweighted average score for all of my 58 stories is 4.53. The average is dragged down by the fact that I've published 7 750-word stories, all of which have scores well under 4.5, and two Loving Wives stories, both of which have scores under 4, because they concern wives having sex outside marriage with "insufficient negative consequences."

But if I weight them by votes, my average is 4.6. My incest and exhibitionism stories generally have decently high scores and get high view and vote counts, which offset the relatively weaker numbers of some of the other stories.

The longer I do this, the less I care about scores. I just want people to read my stories and enjoy them.

 

[SimonDoom]

Lest just say she’s doing mathematics, shall we? Spending the long weekend with mostly Brits as it is.

Em

Stick to your guns. We fought and won a revolution in part to stop mad King George from foisting unnecessary letters on us. At least, that's what I recall.

 

[Altissimus]

The longer I do this, the less I care about scores. I just want people to read my stories and enjoy them.

100%. I care about scores for about the first 5 days following a new publication, to see how it is received. After that... I only care about comments.

 

[Altissimus]

Stick to your guns. We fought and won a revolution in part to stop mad King George from foisting unnecessary letters on us. At least, that's what I recall.

And forever more the Brits will be bad guys. Let's overlook the fact that the Continental Army numbered 230k soldiers, with a further 165k state militia, vs the Brit combined troop count of 72k, 30k of which were German mercenaries. Or that the Brits were simultaneously fighting the French, Spanish and Dutch. I mean, we just wanted to be repaid for defending the colonies from the French during the French and Indian War, which lasted for nine years and left Great Britain in debt. Was that too much to ask? mutter mutter

 

[Bamagan]

Stick to your guns. We fought and won a revolution in part to stop mad King George from foisting unnecessary letters on us. At least, that's what I recall.

If, by letters, you are referring to writs of assistance, then yes, your recollection is legit.

 

[SimonDoom]

And forever more the Brits will be bad guys.

Only in a playful, unserious, "smack-talk" kind of way. Americans love the Brits.

 

[Altissimus]

Only in a playful, unserious, "smack-talk" kind of way. Americans love the Brits.

Because we have the best villains.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Pip pip, cheerio.

As I have said before, my future mother-in-law sounds like the late Queen, at least to me.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Stick to your guns. We fought and won a revolution in part to stop mad King George from foisting unnecessary letters on us. At least, that's what I recall.

I’m sleeping with the enemy, hun. Or at least the progeny of the enemy . Does that mean I get tarred and feathered? Not sure that’s my kink to be honest.

Em