Will you like it feature text and visuals doesn't match

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Will you like it feature text and visuals doesn't match

1amberwitch
Nov 4, 2024, 10:04 am

Hi!
Looking through a few recommendations I noticed that the text and visuals of the "Will you like it" feature seems of.
This work: https://www.librarything.com/work/26905478
gave me a recommendation of "LibraryThing thinks you probably won't like A Study in Drowning (prediction confidence: very high)", and an arrow pointing at the grey area; mouse over text: 184.1, uncertainty 2

This work: https://www.librarything.com/work/27143297 gave me a recommendation of "LibraryThing thinks you probably will like Juniper & Thorn (prediction confidence: very high)" and an arrow also pointing at the grey area (albeit a bit further along); mouse over text: 205.8, uncertainty 3

I have a difficult time reconciling the words and the image for the second work. My expectation would be that if I like something, it would be above the middle, and thus in the blue/green area of the graph.

If I don't like something it would be below the middle, in the grey or red area.

I am on a Windows 11, Microsoft Edge, Version 130.0.2849.68

2MarthaJeanne
Nov 4, 2024, 10:21 am

I've never been able to make any sense of the graphics.

3gilroy
Nov 4, 2024, 11:00 am

I always thought the feature was a for fun, not to be taken with any manner of seriousness back when it was created.
Never really paid attention, since it frequently said I'd like a book I hated and vice versa

4MarthaJeanne
Nov 4, 2024, 11:10 am

I find it works best if I pay attention when it agrees with my basic feeling, but ignore it if it disagrees.

5HsuBattery
Nov 4, 2024, 11:22 am

There are two levels higher.
blue → will like (without that "probably")
green → will love

6waltzmn
Nov 4, 2024, 1:35 pm

>3 gilroy:

More to the point for me, since it only rates books with a lot of copies in the system ("a lot of copies," by my standards, being ≥ 5 or so). Which is pretty pointless when everything one likes is obscure. :-)