Why Ratings Systems Don't Work
Terrible article.  Calling histograms awful, based on nothing more than an opinion.<p>Then trying to conclude that some convoluted scatter plot system makes more sense is laughable.<p>Not to mention, this system is still just a star rating system.  This would be no different than having two histograms side by side.. assuming, of course, that you'd even want to rate different aspects of the same thing.<p>I can't even imagine scatter plots on amazon, or trying to convince the general public that "it makes more sense"