#375849 - Tue Mar 17 2009 01:04 AM
Re: Your Highest-Rated Quiz?
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Registered: Thu Feb 12 2009
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Loc: South Australia
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My highest rated quiz just scraped in with ratings.
Ratings: 20
Good & Excellents: 17 (85%)
Exc: 9 (45%), Good: 8 (40%)
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#375853 - Fri Mar 20 2009 12:37 PM
Re: Your Highest-Rated Quiz?
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Prolific
Registered: Mon Mar 12 2007
Posts: 1408
Loc: Hartlepool Durham England UK
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It doesn't appear that the sunglass club icon helps your quiz get recognized and played more often.
No, but in order to get the sunnies, it has to be played by a good amount of people who really liked it, and then some. In the obscure movies/music/etc, like some of mine are, not many people play, and only half of them rate, so they wound up being marked "new" when they are a year old....  It is actually kind of funny. It looks like a pump out ten quizzes a week when it is quite frankly, untrue. 
Just wait until you have 9 all with 19 ratings, and all at least a year old...talk about the meaning of frustration lol.
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#375858 - Thu Mar 26 2009 07:14 PM
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Registered: Mon Mar 07 2005
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My top-rated quiz is rated 'Tough' as well at #34. Of my top 20, 13 of them are rated 'average'.
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#375861 - Fri Mar 27 2009 11:51 AM
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Registered: Tue Jul 04 2006
Posts: 3613
Loc: Lawrenceville Georgia�USA�...
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Well-said, Midget40. I only have two quizzes online, and both have sunnies. They are rated Difficult and Tough. My personal preference is a quiz that is a bit challenging and one that helps me learn something. The highest I ever rate a super-easy quiz is "Good", unless it is written in such an entertaining way that it makes me laugh or smile, then it might get an "Excellent".
Sue
Edited by shuehorn (Fri Mar 27 2009 11:53 AM)
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#375862 - Fri Mar 27 2009 09:36 PM
Re: Your Highest-Rated Quiz?
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Registered: Thu Feb 12 2009
Posts: 26
Loc: South Australia
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I don't think that it is entirely the difficulty that judges the way people rank them. I do think that easier quizzes tend to get played more. The idea that harder quizzes are rated poorly is brought about by the fact that many quizzes are hard because of petty numbered answers and things like that, and those are the sorts of questions which can bring a rating down.
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#375863 - Fri Mar 27 2009 10:05 PM
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Registered: Fri Aug 20 2004
Posts: 1302
Loc: Omaha Nebraska USA
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Just to add some analysis to the discussion, here is how the top 30 quizzes stack up for difficulty:
Easy: 2
Average: 23
Tough: 3
Difficult: 2
At a cursory glance, it appears that average quizzes tend to net the best ratings, but more challenging efforts have a good shot if they are well-written and can find their audience. Real stumpers, however (Very Difficult and Impossible quizzes) may have serious trouble garnering favor.
I remember when I first started writing. My first quiz was about all I knew about vampire folklore in all its obscurity. I was going to stump everybody--and I did, too. Didn't mean the quizzes were any good, though.
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#375864 - Sun Mar 29 2009 03:13 PM
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Registered: Tue Oct 14 2008
Posts: 301
Loc: Florida USA
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I can relate to Stu here. The obscure topics definitely stump people, and, in my case, get less plays (which mean less ratings). But that doesn't mean they aren't any good. One of my quizzes I consider to be one of my personal best went up in October, and has been played a grand total of 60 times. It seems many rate on how much they learned from the subject, though. Take my quiz on a certain child actress from the 80's - many people know her from doing a voice in a certain movie, and are clueless about her murder, etc. It is obvious from how much they get right. But it still has a pretty high rating, because people learn about a very interesting life of a person who you wouldn't learn about anywhere else. "The Science of FT Ratings". I think I want to go to university and study that sole subject. Think Terry is up to tutoring anyone?
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#375865 - Sun Mar 29 2009 06:47 PM
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Registered: Thu Oct 16 2003
Posts: 10984
Loc: Burlington Ontario Canada
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I've generally found it easier to get a high rating on a quiz that is not played a lot. It's easier to appeal to a select audience than to make a large group happy.
The more popular the topic ('Harry Potter' or 'Star Wars' for example) the more likely you are to run into people who fancy themselves an expert, who are not too pleased with your presentation of their beloved obsession!
So I tend to be the most proud of quizzes which have been played a number of times and still rate well. I have one, for example, that has been played over 10,000 times and is ranked at 64.
Edited by skunkee (Mon Mar 30 2009 08:44 AM)
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#375866 - Sun Mar 29 2009 07:48 PM
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Mainstay
Registered: Tue May 13 2008
Posts: 760
Loc: Texas USA
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The more popular the topic ('Harry Potter' or 'Star Wars' for example) the more likely you are to run into people who fancy themselves an expert, who are not be pleased with your presentation of their beloved obsession!
I've never thought of that aspect before, but it could certainly explain why my "Star Wars" attempt sits at the bottom of my quiz list, though I was quite proud of it! For the moment, my highest rated quiz with many plays is #2083 - a "Star Wars" hybrid quiz.
Definitely agree about the more specific topics being rated better. They're either going to be played by the few people who are quite familiar with it, or friends/teammates who will rate it high just to be nice.
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#375868 - Mon Mar 30 2009 05:53 AM
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Registered: Wed Oct 31 2007
Posts: 1615
Loc: London, England
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I'd agree that getting a high rated quiz that is played thousands of times is much more difficult which is why I'm prouder of a couple of quizzes that are lower in the ranking than the one that currently sits on top of my list. It's much more gratifying to get 90% G&E out of 400 ratings than 92% out of 26.
But you can't always blame lower ratings on popularity - my two lowest have not been played that often; they're just a bit rubbish!
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#375873 - Sat Apr 04 2009 05:06 AM
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Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999
Posts: 38005
Loc: Jersey
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I have never been comfortable with this thread and have removed part of it as you are breaking our rules by publicising your quizzes and asking for people to play and rate them. Go back to the first post in this thread and you will see that it just asks... Quote:
Hi there everyone, can you guys please write down the statistics detail for your highest rated quiz? It would be interesting to compare and see what rating would make a quiz to get the sunnies. Thanks. Let me start off with mine:
Rank: 1293
Ratings: 23
Good & Excellents: 21 (91%)
Exc: 8 (35%), Good: 13 (57%)
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*My* oldest unranked quiz is my very first - and it's coming up for its third birthday in November... 
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