| CommonMan said: It's not a flaw, it's an aggregate. Thre are 3 "Averages": the mean, median and mode. Mathmeticians really have never decided what the "best" average is, it's a case by case basis. What metacritic shows is the mean score. Meaning take the scores, add them up and divide by how many scores there are (plus weighting but we can leave it out of this discussion). Each of the average types have strengths and weaknesses (for instance the mode is the most common number in a set, so Uncharted 2 would be 100 on this scale, in fact we'd have a lot of 100's this gen if that was the case, not very helpful) and the median is arrived at by listing the numbers and finding the right in the middle and taking the mean of those two, which isn't very helpful either as outliers would put a lot of games way lower. So unless you can come up with a brand new type of average that no mathmetician since ancient Egypt has been able to come up with, it's as good as it's going to get. |
well said.
