Jim Sterling’s site under attack after Zelda: BotW review

[Mnementh]

SWORDF1SH said:

Mnementh said:

Did you look at the actual scores? A lot of tens and nines and a lot of zeros. And if you read the zeros, you often read: "I didn't play the game, but ...". That is the result of a hate-train. A reason why I say the average is useless for such stuff, you should take the median. The median for Zelda:BotW userscores on Meta is nine.

Never look at user reviews for exclusives. Fanboys will rate it 0 to bring the score down and fanboys will rate it 10 to bring the score up. 

Yep. And we have a statistical tool to manage that: it is called Median.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median

But seemingly nobody heard of that when creating user-based scores. That's why the user meta scores are basically worthless. And many pointed this out in this very forums at the time Nintendo used Meta critics AND user scores for painting it's own games in a good light.