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Título
Managing the Smiley Face Scale Used by Booking.com in an Ordinal Way
Año del Documento
2021
Editorial
Universidad de Talca (Chile)
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2021, Vol.16, Issue 2,128-139
Abstract
User reviews are a new source of information in the hospitality and tourism sector. Usually, these reviews contain comments of users and assessments expressed through ordered qualitative scales. The website Booking.com uses a smiley face scale to ask users the degree of satisfaction regarding several aspects of accommodations. The scoring system of the website assigns numerical values to each item of the smiley face scale. However, when users perceive different proximities between pairs of items of an ordered qualitative scale, these numerical codifications are because they may misrepresent the original ordinal information. In this paper, we analyze the drawbacks and limitations of the scoring system of Booking.com and we manage its smiley face scale through a purely ordinal procedure. This procedure avoids assigning numerical codifications to items of scales and it takes into account how users perceive the proximities between pairs of items. The findings show the importance of considering how users understand qualitative scales when they face subjective assessments through ordered qualitative scales.
Palabras Clave
Encuestas online
Online surveys
ISSN
0718–1876
Revisión por pares
SI
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© 2021 Universidad de Talca (Chile)
Idioma
eng
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