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Hmm, my client doesn't seem to show a ratio. Using Connect. Where would one usually find that kind of information?
Not sure if troll, but I'll explain just in case.
You wrote:
What I meant was that you can see an exact number of the people thatuse the platform one way or the other (enjoy youtube link posts vs those who don't enjoy them) in the likes and dislikes (on the original post).
Calculating the ratio is as simple as dividing one number by the other ... but it is a bit more useful to divide one of the votes against the total number of people who voted. You can further normalize the results as percentages.
Currently there are 23 upvotes and 26 downvotes. That results in:
(and I challange you to do the math yourself because I am too lazy to type it out)
The point is - this percentages (or the ratio of likes to dislikes) represent the groups of people you talk about. Why are you saying "perhaps not everyone ..." when you can see that about half of the people are enjoying the content and half don't.
(I know the numbers are not perfectly correlated to the attributes we discuss, due to bots, irrational votes etc. but they are good enough to get an approximation)
Further trivia about the term "ratio" in the context of social media platforms, especially twitter: https://reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/n25w8s/whats_the_deal_with_the_term_ratio_on_twitter/
The "why" comments in this thread are a similar kind of ratio concept as on twitter. Even though here we have likes and dislikes directly visible.
Thanks for responding. I figured that's what the ratio would represent, but my client only shows the net score, no ratio. Maybe I need to play around with other clients. I barely ever used Twitter and deleted my account when Musk started his shenanigans, so I'm not really sure about how Twitter works in that regard. Anyway, I get the basic concept. Just can't access the data.