| garywood said: Well there's not intrinsic reason as to why the median and the mean should be the same. You've just assumed that. The university system of adjusting based on the local standards is maybe a good idea. Although not entirely clear how you'd do that. You can do that in an exam because you have a kind of background objective baseline that you can compare everything to. That doesn't really exist with games. Each score is just relative to all of the rest. You don't have the archetypal perfect score that everyone agrees on and can compare to. |
Yea I made a rushed connection. I wanted to establish the 5=average=middle of the pack thing but I didn't really make logical sense.
I wish we had the ideal "average" or baseline game that we could compare the others too, but I don't even know what would be taken into consideration when making that call. Heck I'd go for any score that 100% of the people agree on so we could compare other games to it. Maybe that would make all reviews more agreeable? To me it would anyway.
I got a tad off topic with the bell-grading in school, but I guess my main goal is to bell curve review scores to my own ideal standard. I want the average score to be 5 so we can compare from that, and I think review scores are too high these days, and a lot of reviewers are afraid of criticizing, and individuals are too sensitive to criticism.
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