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<blockquote data-quote="Amrûnril" data-source="post: 9128010" data-attributes="member: 6841183">Regarding the discussion of percentages, the developers are describing their results as approval ratings. In conventional polling terminology, that’s a measurement of how many people like something, not of how much the average person likes something (if a public figure has a 45% approval rating, that means 45% of respondents told the pollster they approve of the person, not that the average respondent approves of the person 45%). If the developers say something had a 60% approval rating, the default interpretation of that statement (absent specific evidence to the contrary) would be that 60% of respondents gave it either an “Approve” or “Strongly Approve” rating.If the developers want a first impression of how popular something is, this seems like a good number to look at. If they want to know how strongly people feel, that would be obscured in the topline data, but hopefully still available in a more detailed breakdown of the results. If they want to know whether people would like to see further iteration on a design, then they need to collect data that actually corresponds to that question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Amrûnril, post: 9128010, member: 6841183"] Regarding the discussion of percentages, the developers are describing their results as approval ratings. In conventional polling terminology, that’s a measurement of [I]how many[/I] people like something, not of [I]how much[/I] the average person likes something (if a public figure has a 45% approval rating, that means 45% of respondents told the pollster they approve of the person, not that the average respondent approves of the person 45%). If the developers say something had a 60% approval rating, the default interpretation of that statement (absent specific evidence to the contrary) would be that 60% of respondents gave it either an “Approve” or “Strongly Approve” rating. If the developers want a first impression of how popular something is, this seems like a good number to look at. If they want to know how strongly people feel, that would be obscured in the topline data, but hopefully still available in a more detailed breakdown of the results. If they want to know whether people would like to see further iteration on a design, then they need to collect data that actually corresponds to that question. [/QUOTE]

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