Diversively rated VNs on VNDB

[Vorathiel]

Love-or-hate types.
Do you know any? Titles that have more 10s and 6s, than 9s and 8s? Titles where you see ratings and just start wondering what the hell is going on?

I actually never stumble on one. Everything was always looking neat at diagrams. Like this:

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Never chaotic like that:

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And of course - when there is less than 30 grades of course it can look chaotic, so I just want to see something little more popular.  

[Jartse]

Have a look at Hanahira (https://vndb.org/v5244) - lots of different opinion there...

[Nosebleed]

Dustmania (https://vndb.org/v3030) kinda has thst split but more towards the bottom.

[Ariurotl]

Immediately searched for Chaos;Head ratings but surprisingly, there is no such split.

[Nosebleed]

The thing is, it's very unlikely you'll find such a split on games a lot of people have played due to normal distribution. It's just one of those facts of human behavior we normally can't escape.

[Vorathiel]

1 hour ago, Nosebleed said:

Dustmania (https://vndb.org/v3030) kinda has thst split but more towards the bottom.

I have a feeling that this title appears everywhere, where it is even a slightest opening for its apperance.

3 hours ago, Jartse said:

Have a look at Hanahira (https://vndb.org/v5244) - lots of different opinion there...

Yes, this. I just started this and I'm sooo... confused. I'm screaming at my screen with anger and yet I'm smiling like an idiot. 

[Fred the Barber]

The general term for what you're looking for is a multimodal distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_distribution. It should be vastly easier to test for in the VNDB data than in the general continuous probably distribution function case since the data is (mostly) discrete. One can download the raw VNDB vote data from https://vndb.org/d14 and cobble together a script to find all games matching a simple condition like:

second-highest vote bucket is more than one point away from highest vote bucket

Some people put non-integer votes in VNDB, but I'd probably deal with that by just rounding those off and not lose any sleep over it. It seems rare, and from what I've seen is mostly done by people who are using their VNDB votes to put up a relative ranking of VNs, rather than an independent rating of each VN.

[Chronopolis]

https://vndb.org/v9208

This game is alright, this game is shit.