The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation.
I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten.
I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.
The ranking... it's just a number.
If I had to rate myself between one and 10? If you're a gingerist and like ginger guys, I guess I'm a seven, with make-up on maybe an eight. If you're not a gingerist, I'm probably a six, six and a half.
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
