Netflix.com uses star ratings, Digg.com uses up/down votes and Facebook uses a "like" but not a "dislike" button. Despite the popularity and diversity of these rating scales, research offers little guidance for designers choosing between them.
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Sparling et al. (2011) studied this question.
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