Have you ever debated with your friends over what the best pizza topping or the greatest Pixar movie is? This is here to provide a totally definitive ranking to solve these debates once and for all, using the power of crowdsourcing!
Find a poll that you have opinions about, and you will be presented with a series of this-or-that options where you have to decide which you like more or which you think is better. These votes will be combined to form a total rating. It's that simple!
A lot of times, there'll be links for more information if you're so inclined. If you're really stuck, just press the button that says you don't know enough to make a decision, and that matchup will be skipped. But what's the fun in that? Go with your gut instinct! No one said there had to be rigorous criteria on how to decide.
I don't want one person mindlessly clicking for an hour to skew the results. I want to give people plenty of chances to vote, since the more data there are the better the final rankings will be, but ideally I'd like everyone to hold more or less the same amount of sway over the final results.
Ratings are calulated using a maximum likelihood estimation, and adjusted for human readability. Essentially, a score of 5 is "average", and the higher the better. In theory it's possible to have a negative rating or one over 10, but they would be hard to achieve (and values of 0 and 10 don't actually have any meaning anyway).
You can now make your own! Just go to the poll creation page and fill out the necessary information. If you so desire, you can include links and images of your own. Once you've submitted it, I will give it a look-over and approve it for general participation.
Great! I'm all ears! Let me know and I will certainly keep it in mind for a future week.