Posted by Nonymous on 01/17/63 11:51

"Russ" <uriahsky@hotmail.com> wrote in news:1151391598.197076.241380
@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com:

> I was on Net flix picking out movies in the Sci Fi department and came
> across The Brothers Grimm. I was reading the reviews and it seemed
> most people gave it one or two stars yet Net Flix had it at 3 stars.
> So I added up all of the reviews just to see what was going on. Here
> is what I found.
>
> 138 people gave it one star.
> 110 gave it two stars
> 73 gave it three stars
> 47 gave it 4 stars
> 23 gave it 5 stars.
>
> Which equals 391
>
> Here is where I am a little lost. What do you do next to get the
> average rating? divide by 5?

The stars dont show the average rating. The stars are an estimate of what
you'd give the movie were you to watch it. It's computed by comparing your
movie ratings against the ratings of everybody else that watched the same
movies as you. Of course if you haven't rated any/many movies, then the
stars really do behave more like average ratings.

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