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A number pretending to be an opinion so arguments can have decimal points.
means A score or ranking assigned to something or someone, based on a set of criteria or comparative judgment.
from From 'rate,' meaning to estimate value or assign a proportional worth, which traces back through Old French to the Latin 'reri' — to calculate or reckon. The same root gives us 'ratio' and 'rational,' so a rating, at bottom, is just an attempt to make a feeling behave like arithmetic.
- A1 origin
- Lloyd's register rated ship hulls A, rigging 1
- credit rating
- Dun & Bradstreet started rating businesses in 1841
- five stars
- Most online ratings skew high from selection bias
- chess elo
- Named after physicist Arpad Elo, not an acronym