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Even considering the bias of 'people who like reading Dilbert' - which is a valid point - I still think there's something fishy about the ratings. There are bound to be strips that even Dilbert fans find less funny than normal.
Another aspect of it is that I have given on occasion a low rating to a strip I didn't find all that funny, and even when there's been few votes on that strip it didn't move from its 4 star rating. You can never be sure of exactly what the voting average has been, but with few existing votes, a significantly lower than average vote is likely to lower the average from 4 to say 3.5 stars. I've not ever seen that happen.
Another indicator of the lack of statistical soundness is the apparent lack of a normal distribution (bell curve) of the ratings that one would expect to see for the fairly large number of strips there are.
dilogic - of course it's not sound. There is a sample bias of 'people who like reading Dilbert,' assuming that those who don't like the comic stop reading pretty quickly.
I've seen a range of ratings from 3 1/2 to 5 stars.
The rating thing has been brought up before, and I agree that it does not seem statistically sound at all. I don't think I've ever seen any strip with less than 4 stars, ever.
Like the coloring of the strips, it's probably outsourced to the Elbonians.
That, or it is pro-rating votes based on the average quality of comments left by the user. :-P
