Thread:Talk:Article feedback/confusing: do you need to fill in all the vote categories?/reply

I put this in another thread, but will repost here cause it seems more relevant:

IMO, the four categories are not very well chosen, as they mean very different things in differing contexts of articles.

Sure, these are definitely the four (most important) things you are interested in measuring. But that doesn't mean you must measure them by straight-out asking for them! :) You got a huge encyclopaedia here at your fingertips, how about starting to read up a bit on Social Research?

Basically, you forget there's an intermediate step. The four categories are called "axes" on which you'd like to score most proper articles. In that context, they are probably well-chosen. But in order to obtain the scores on these axes, you must formulate the questions wisely, which is most often NOT done by asking "How much would you rate this on the axis of X?" (which is what you're doing now). Entire textbooks have been written about this subject, which at least a century old (and depending on how you look at it, even much older).