Fraser Speirs – The meaning of five stars

Fraser Speirs – The meaning of five stars:

I was thinking a bit about the five-star rating system that Apple provides in iPhoto and Aperture, and how the problem of image retrieval rather depends on your future self and former self agreeing about the quality of images. Over time, I’ve found myself being very inconsistent about rating images.

In the first case, I now consider myself to have been very generous in the past. I guess this is inevitable as one’s standards are raised. Images I’ve rated 5 in the past, I would now give 2 or 3 at most. However, I think there’s a better way to look at star ratings than just “this 4-star image is 80% of what I consider awesome”, and for this clarification in my thinking, I must credit James Duncan Davidson, on the O’Reilly Aperture Blog.

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