I recently released an iPhone app (check my profile for details) and it has gotten 8 ratings<p>4 five stars
1 three stars
3 one star<p>I should also note that the people who rated it five and three stars left a review. The three who rated it one star left no review, they just rated it.<p>What should I make of this rating?<p>1) Is it really that polarizing that people either love it or hate it?<p>2) Are some competitors rating it a 1 on purpose, to keep the average down? (Do people do this?)<p>3) Are there not enough ratings to give us a statistically meaningful distribution, and so any distribution we see early on should be taken with a grain of salt?<p>4) Other?
You don't have a lot of data- but the data is clearly bimodal (Hartigan dip test value: 0.1875, which is "large"- so this is a very unlikely pattern from a unimodal distribution). The question that can't be answered from this data alone- is the different sub-population of 1-stars due to something in your app (like a bug only they encountered) or something about them (older iPhone, or competitors entering harmful scores).