YouTube used to display a bar chart to present the “likes” and “dislikes” of a video. What I would immediately see upon landing on the page was the proportion of site visitors who pressed the like and dislike button. But guess what I would immediately do? I would drag my cursor toward the chart and hover the cursor on top of the chart because that was the only way to see the actual number of “likes” and “dislikes.”

Statistics does not mean much without a good number of samples. I’m interested to see the numbers first. YouTube has since replaced the chart with the old school, straight up numbers. I suppose a user could infer the ratio of “likes” and “dislikes” himself.

Likes Statistics