rating systems
Structured quality scales
Rating systems are frameworks for evaluating and classifying things according to quality, intensity, or suitability.
Movie ratings indicate age-appropriateness; credit ratings assess financial risk; star ratings rank restaurants or hotels.
Most use scales—numerical, alphabetical, or symbolic—to standardize subjective judgments: The game received a mature rating, a five-star rating system.
Rating systems aim for consistency but often reflect the biases of whoever designed them.
- grading scalesStandards for evaluating work
- credit scoreNumerical measure of borrower reliability
- movie ratingsContent guidance for films
- metricsStandards for assessment
- letter gradesAlphabetic academic evaluations
letter grade · pass fail · Rotten Tomatoes · scorecard · appraisal · age restrictions · rubrics · ranking · player rankings · Yelp · percentile ranking · age-appropriate · parental guidance · peer review · leaderboards · content warnings · upvote · benchmarking
- film criticismfilm reviews, movie reviews, film critics, critics, critical reception
- kid-safeparental controls, age ratings, age restrictions, child locks, safe search
- censorshipbanned books, censored, banned, book banning, book bans
- media regulationcensorship, content moderation, press censorship, film censorship, art censorship
- media rulesbroadcast standards, decency standards, censorship laws, content moderation, editorial standards
- Standards & Rulessafety protocols, quality control, certification, accreditation, compliance
rating systemsraw data
Unanalyzed collected information
primary sources · source material · data streams · anecdotal evidence
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