On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:18:57 GMT, "Ian J. Ball"
Post by Ian J. BallPost by h***@yahoo.comSeason 1 7.984 ± 0.47
Season 2 8.073 ± 0.37
Season 3 7.638 ± 0.47
Season 4 7.957 ± 0.22
Season 5 8.253 ± 0.24
This suggests that season 5 was Andromeda's best season?!?!?
You're *just* figuring this out?!
I had GEOS pegged as useless almost a decade ago.
You first need to define what 'useful' would be in this context. If you
mean as a guide to establish whether a program is good, or worth watching,
I would consider no poll, including the Nielsen ratings to useful for
that.
With a rating poll like this, it isn't the raw number that means anything,
as the raw number has no intrinsic value, it's the comparison and patterns
that have meaning. A show like Andromeda is very hard to judge by the
voting, because the voting numbers declined so precipitously. The higest
rated episode according to the poll is Its Hour Come Round At Last, the
season 1 finale (and most people who watched very much of Andromeda will
likely agree with that). It's the only episode (by a wide margin) to
average better than 9 (on a 10 point scale) and it has had, so far, 125
votes. The series finale, The Heart Of The Journey Pt.2, is the second
highest rated episode, almost half a point lower, but it has only had 16
votes. If I talked 4 people into signing on and voting it a 1.0, it would
be the lowest rated episode. Quant very definitely not Suff.
Numbers really don't lie, but they don't always say what people think they
say.
To get a reasonable season to season comparison, you need to have enough
distance so that the total votes are reasonably smoothed out. I don't
completely agree with the 'average GEOS voter' on the relative ratings of
the Buffy episodes, but since the one with the least number of votes for
an episode is 205, that's a reasonably flattened average. My basic
conclusion is that other people don't agree with me, not that the sample
is flawed.
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