Average does not give enough detail

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Nice to see not everyone lives on a cell phone. We call, answer, and talk on ours. I even have to get someone else to add names and numbers.
It gets charged about once a week because our kids in the midwest call almost every day. We rarely take it with us shopping or for a drive. it is nice on a road trip since we have it.

I still don't care about averages on my stories. I'm happy three guys or gals read some of them. And surprisingly the few comments have been nice.

 

[MatthewVett]

Nebie alert - feel free ignore any sentiments expressed in this post.

Just a thought.

Readers can rate stories between 1 and 5 stars. They cannot rate a story 0. Say you get 100 votes and an average of 3: that *could* mean that around 20 readers each voted one, two, three, four and five stars. But it may be a quite different situation: half the readers voting four or five and the other half one or two. (What stats wonks would call bi-modal)

In the first case I guess you should improve your writing to up the average, but in the second case you have one set of readers who are unlikely to like your stuff whatever you do, and another set who just want you to carry on doing the same thing. The point is the average alone does not tell you.

What is needed is the count of one-star votes, two-star votes, and so on.

Love and lust
Eve

Some other sites give you a histogram, which I love. I agree, a simple average isn't enough. I want to know the whole distribution!