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Cerebralbore101 on 12 August 2017
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Wyrdness said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

That's part of why I don't like them though. They insist that 5/10 is the average when the rest of the industry has long accepted that it is 7/10. Their own reviews don't even agree with that. According to metacritic the average score issued by Edge is 6.5/10. 

They're right though as their scaling makes sense and the industry's doesn't, 5 is bang in the middle of the scale and easy to navigate and explain while 7 doesn't make sense at all for being average as below 6/10 you have five numbers on the scale for bad. Edge is at least coherent.

1- Avoid
2- Poor
3- Mediocre
4- Below Average
5- Average
6- Above Average
7- Decent
8- Good
9- Exceptional
10- Ground Breaking

Average doesn't mean the exact middle of a set of numbers. Average is the result of adding all the number's up and then dividing the sum by the total numbers given. The average grade in a classroom isn't 50/100. The average grade in a classroom is whatever the average grade of all the students put together is.

Also Average and Decent means the same thing. Listing 5 as Average, and then 7 as Decent in a scoring scale is like listing 9 as spectacular, and 7 as awesome. Mediocre also means average. Their descriptions just don't make sense.