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

[Mnementh]

SWORDF1SH said:

Mnementh said:

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.

Or you could still use the mean average but eliminate all the extreme data.

Well, basically the media is only an extreme form of it, with all but 1 of the datasets declared as extreme and removed.

But yeah, removing 10-20% of the lowest and highest votes would have an similar effect.