ECM on 01 October 2012
| Chandler said: It's really annoying that reviews suddenly differ so much. 30% to 92% is a pretty big range of emotion and I can't see how you can objectively defend both scores at the same time. |
How can you objectively defend arbitrary scoring systems, even if they're within 2 points of one another? They're arbitrary and that's further compounded by the whims of the reviewer in question, and his editor.
The thing you need to look at here is the trend. If the trend is all moving in one direction then you have a pretty good idea whether the 3-4-5s are 'true' or just outliers.
(Naturally this only counts for pre-release scores--once everyone in the world can review it they're going to be massively-influenced by conventional wisdom since people, on the whole, are sheep and want to be part of the herd.)
