How did Lacie's rating fall to a Zero?
In the Black Mirror Episode "Nosedive (S3,E1)", towards the end, Lacie's rating falls below 1 and goes to a '0', thereby sending her to a jail of sorts.
In the app that they use to rate each other, the minimum rating you could give someone would be 1 star highest being 5. So a person could go to 1 (but to be honest even a perfect one is impossible since she always had been a 4.2, mathematically she would always be a 1.00000something even if she got all 1s in a row)
My question is how did she fall to below 1? Since the lowest rating one could get is 1, how did she end up with a 0.something? Did I miss something?
Best Answer
Because she was on double damage due to her punishment from airport security:
So her rating was getting double the damage for 24 hours and when she reaches the wedding her rating was already 1.1:
So that's how her rating was going below 1 and last time we see it it was not zero but 0.7:
And she ends up in jail for wracking the wedding, she got uninvited when she was on the way with 2 point something rating.
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While the total ranking is measured on a 0 to 5 star scale the scores that can be given must use a range of at least -1 to 5. Mathematically it's the only way her ranking could dip below 1.x and eventually dive to 0.
To flesh out the episode's parlance: negative ranking must be any score that is given that is below the user's current average (and thus would bring down their rank). A downvote (a term that is only used once after Lacie is given the "double damage" penalty) must be a special (and particularly cruel) rating type that is equal to -1.
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