Fat Princess ( Metacritic Review )

[Reasonable]

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Reasonable said:
As ever (and I'm not talking about bias any particular way, for PS3 or 360) I remain amazed that review scores can have such a huge spread.

From 60 to 93? That's a huge range of views. When I see this I can't help feeling the top reviews are probably biased towards the title/console, the bottom just trying to make a point or be different, and the more middle range reviews probably a better indicator of the game.

The spread isn't all that wide.  There are outliers, on the low end only.

There are 4 scores tightly bunched at 90 or higher.  There are three scores bunched around 85.  Then there is 1 score at 80, ok, not so bad.  Jump another 5 points down, and there's another score at 75.  Ok, we have an outlier there.  And then WHAAAAA????!!!!! a score at 60.  It's Eurogamer, which happens to do this consistently.

As with any statistical work, you throw out the extreme outliers.  First, let's see how things end up with 30+ scores, though.

 

I was more shaking my head at lack of critical consistency than looking at it statistically.  From that angle I agree that, assuming the general spread/bunching remains around the same I'd chop of anything below 75% as an outlier and probably look at the shape between the top and that

 

Mind you, I just looked at some films, same result!  Up has reviews ranging from 50 to 100!  Amazing (critically, not statistically!).