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by Sleaker 674 days ago
Why is everything only plotted between 4 and 8 if the scale of the least liked topic should be 0 and most liked should be 9. Also 4.5 is the midpoint, but 4 is displayed as bright red and 6 is a muted gray blue, why? This makes no sense except to be psychologically disingenuous.

And no 5s? What is even going on in that LLM?
2 comments
sebastiennight 674 days ago
> "It's a scale of 1 to 13, but it goes up and back down. Eight is the highest score on the scale." - Jason Mendoza

It's nice to see this scale used outside of The Good Place.

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teo_zero 674 days ago
The scale makes no sense.

Sentiment of forum posts is not an absolute value, you can't compare it against, for example, conversations in a pub, or talks between friends, etc.

I think they should have normalized the numbers around the average, so to have a relative measurement of the various topics.

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