A rating is the evaluation Evaluation is systematic determination of merit, worth, and significance of something or someone using criteria against a set of standards. Evaluation often is used to characterize and appraise subjects of interest in a wide range of human enterprises, including the arts, criminal justice, foundations and non-profit organizations, government, or assessment of something, in terms of quality (as with a critic rating a novel), quantity (as with an athlete being rated by his or her statistics Statistics is the formal science of making effective use of numerical data relating to groups of individuals or experiments. It deals with all aspects of this, including not only the collection, analysis and interpretation of such data, but also the planning of the collection of data, in terms of the design of surveys and experiments), or some combination of both.
Rating may also refer to:
- Credit rating A credit rating estimates the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation, or even a country. It is an evaluation made by credit bureaus of a borrower’s overall credit history. A credit rating is also known as an evaluation of a potential borrower's ability to repay debt, prepared by a credit bureau at the request of the lender . Credit
- Fire-resistance rating A fire-resistance rating typically means the duration for which a passive fire protection system can withstand a standard fire resistance test. This can be quantified simply as a measure of time, or it may entail a host of other criteria, involving other evidence of functionality or fitness for purpose
- Naval rating A Naval Rating is an enlisted member of a country's Navy, subordinate to Warrant Officers and Officers hence not conferred by commission or warrant. The term is generally used in reference to rank whilst in the United States it is used differently to denote both rank and specialist employment
- Performance Rating, in computing, used by AMD
- Ranally city rating
- Rating site A rating site is a website designed for users to vote on or rate people, content, or other things. Rating sites are typically organized around attributes such as physical appearance, body parts, voice, personality, etc. They may also be devoted to the subjects' occupational ability, for example teachers, professors, lawyers, doctors, etc, website that allows rating
- Reputation system A reputation system computes and publishes reputation scores for a set of objects within a community or domain, based on a collection of opinions that other entities hold about the objects. The opinions are typically passed as ratings to a reputation center which uses a specific reputation algorithm to dynamically compute the reputation scores
- Telecommunications rating, the calculated cost of a phone call
- United States presidential approval rating In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were introduced by George Gallup in the late 1930s to gauge public support for the president during his presidency. An approval rating is a percentage determined by a polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a particular person or program. Most, a polling term which reflects the approval of a particular person or program
Entertainment
- Elo rating system, a rating system used in chess and in other sports and games
- Nielsen ratings Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research, in an effort to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States. Nielsen Media Research was founded by Arthur Nielsen, who was a market analyst whose career had begun in the 1920s with brand advertising analysis and, United States television viewership ratings
- Motion picture rating A motion picture rating system is designated to classify films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content. A particular issued rating is called a certification, categorizes films according to their suitability for adults and children
- Sports rating, analyzes the results of sports competitions
- Television content rating
- Video game content rating
Petroleum
- Cetane number Cetane number or CN is a measurement of the combustion quality of diesel fuel during compression ignition. It is a significant expression of diesel fuel quality among a number of other measurements that determine overall diesel fuel quality
- Octane rating The octane rating is a measure of the resistance of petrol and other fuels to autoignition in spark-ignition internal combustion engines
See also
- All pages beginning with "Rating"
- All pages with titles containing "Rating"
- Rate (disambiguation)
- Audience measurement Audience measurement measure how many people are in an audience, usually in relation to radio listenership and television viewership, but also newspaper and magazine readership, and increasingly, usage of websites, to help broadcasters and advertisers determine who is listening, rather than just how many. This broader meaning is called audience
- Grade (education) Grades are standardized measurements of varying levels of comprehension within a subject area. Grades can be assigned in letters , as a range (for example 4.0 - 1.0), as descriptors (excellent, great, satisfactory, needs improvement), in percentages, or, as is common in some post-secondary institutions in some countries, as a Grade Point Average (
- Star (classification) Stars are often used as symbols for classification purposes. They are used by reviewers for ranking things such as movies, TV shows, restaurants, and hotels. For example, one to five stars is commonly employed to categorize hotels
- Likert scale A Likert scale is a psychometric scale commonly used in questionnaires, and is the most widely used scale in survey research, such that the term is often used interchangably with rating scale even though the two are not synonomous. When responding to a Likert questionnaire item, respondents specify their level of agreement to a statement. The
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7/29/10 kosa they are determined by evaluating academic success on the TAKS, the graduation rates and the drop out rates. As usual, the results show many bright spots ... ECISD rated academically acceptable Odessa American
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0 Episode 1 19 The Road Not Taken continued Fringe s outstanding performance in the ratings particularly in the key demo where it scored 4 3 receiving around 10 5 million viewers overall
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