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Originally posted by: greencapt
On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best)
Star Wars: 11
Empire Strikes Back: 12
Return of the Jedi: 9
Let's be a little more realistic...
I'm sick of seing people rating stuff, and never giving a rate below 7.
Have you ever heard of the Gaussian distribution?
In plain english, that means that:
a)70% of the things beiing given a rate/value should be rated between 3.5-6.5 (using a ususal value of sigma, in that case sigma=1,5).
b)For the same sigma value, If something is rated with an "8", it does not mean that it is better than 8 out of 10 other rated stuff, it is better than the 98% of the others.
If something gets a "9", it means it is better than the 99,5% of the others.
Keeping that in mind, here is my own rating of the films:
SW: 8
ESB: 9
ROTJ: 5
TPM: 5.5
AOTC: 7
EDIT: Sorry for the diagram it should have a white background, but I can't fix it. It is better shown if you select it by dragging the mouse over it.
EDIT2: greencapt, By replying to your post I didn't mean to offend you or disagree with you. Your post just reminded my of that thing, and I just wanted to make my point. As you can see, our ratings are placed on a different scale, but they are similar
