aikohualda said:
brendude13 said:
aikohualda said:
HigHurtenflurst said:
3.5/5 *100
The problem with that though is the scores don't neccesarily gel together.... Admitedly most (probably like 2/3rds) of reviewers use a stupidly over 'accurate' score out of 100, whether that be literally a percentage or out of 10 but to 1.d.p. makes no difference. As foolish as I think that was of scoring is, something lke Metacritic would be ok if all the reviews used the same scale and metacritic didn't mess with the average in any way. It would just be an average score and while it wouldn't mean a great deal, it could be an indicator of a games quality just due to "wisdom of crowds" effect.
As it is though, many of the reviews included in Metacritic use different scales, and some may use similar scales but have a totally different interpretation of what they mean (though it's rare to find a game reviewer who gives average games a central score in their scale anymore). Metacritic tries to "correct" this using heuristics but it's just trying to find a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist, and they also weight reviews even if they use the same scale anyway.
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3.5/5 * 100 = 350/500
it is
3.5/50 * 20 = 70/100
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I have no idea what you are doing. 
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ne he said you are suppose to multiply by 100...
it is multiply by 20.... to make it 100....
3.5 *20 = 70
5 *20 = 100
i accidentally put 0 though :P
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My calculation was correct, it is how you convert a score into a percentage.
3.5/5 = 0.7
0.7*100 = 70
Having said that I probably made it a bit confusing with the space I put after the fraction... but it's still a fraction not a ratio so you don't treat the 3.5 as a separate entity from the 5.
You seem to be working in ratios, which is fine as it works... it just means the calculations change for each different scale if you want to convert it back to a percentage. (for example if it were a score of 3.5/4 you would have to multiply the top & bottom by 25) As Metacritic converts scores into a percentage (which is the same thing as "out of 100") all you have to do is divide the score into the maximum score and multiply by 100.
