LordTheNightKnight said:
Then there is a problem. This has nothing to do with the reviews. It has to do with screwing with the math. Rounding is not down or up by your choice. |
Actually it is their choice.
LordTheNightKnight said:
Then there is a problem. This has nothing to do with the reviews. It has to do with screwing with the math. Rounding is not down or up by your choice. |
So let's say you were buying the exact lienght of rope needed to bungie jump, and they mesured it to the inch. If they then went to the yard, would you want them to round up? ;)
If they want to error on the side of caution, and lower all reviews, that's there proagative.
twesterm said:
Actually it is their choice.
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No. The laws of math don't work that way. If they actually decided that every review was lower than they thought, then okay. If they were just deciding to blanket adjust, based on the numbers, and not their reviews of the games, they are fudging the numbers.
If they had originally decided OoT was close, but no 10, as other suggested, that would not be an issue, but every game with a decimal above 5 are close, but not those numbers? That is just wrong. That is just hacking off the second numbers. That isn't real adjustment, that is being lazy.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
| Kyros said: Rounding is not down or up by your choice. eh yes it is. Mathematics do not tell you how to transform a real value into a decimal. You can round, you can truncate you can round up or you could multiplicate it times 10 if you want to. The funny thing is that they probably do not care about it and had no idea that they made the life of many Ocarina fans hell with this. |
This isn't turning a real value into decimal. This is taking off any numbers to the right of a certain position. You can choose the position, but if the first number to the right of the position is between 5 and 9, you have to round up.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
Yeah sorry about that guys lol. Too bad the first time I get something on GoNintendo it was me making a stupid mistake. 
LordTheNightKnight said:
No. The laws of math don't work that way. If they actually decided that every review was lower than they thought, then okay. If they were just deciding to blanket adjust, based on the numbers, and not their reviews of the games, they are fudging the numbers. If they had originally decided OoT was close, but no 10, as other suggested, that would not be an issue, but every game with a decimal above 5 are close, but not those numbers? That is just wrong. That is just hacking off the second numbers. That isn't real adjustment, that is being lazy. |
Well, if you followed real rounding, you would have to give every game that had a 9.5, a 10. And 9.5 games are not 10 games. Ok, so you don't do that, then what do you do? Re-review every game? give 9.9 games 10, and 9.8 games 9? If you do that, it's no better, as it's just some arbitrary thing like what they did.
I could see the owner of that site thinking "Well, I would rather everyone play the games we review, and think they are better then then review, then think they are worse. Let's just lower the score's of all games, and error on the side of caution".
Why does that bother you? If you are letting GTAIV motivate you to post this, you need to review your priorities in life my friend :)
| Kyros said: you have to round up. No you haven't. Rounding to the nearest decimal, rounding up or rounding down are three equally valid options that are used in different situations. IF this is done for prices in stores its generally rounded down. If its your pay amounts are normally rounded up and grades in school are often rounded to the nearest number. There are no mathematical rules how you have to round. |
Yep, and in bankers rounding, they randomly round .5 up or down.
Rounding means to take something to the next decimal place up. How you take it there is up to you.
edit: "next decimal up" means loosing an order of magnitude, not to a higher value.
TheRealMafoo said:
Well, if you followed real rounding, you would have to give every game that had a 9.5, a 10. And 9.5 games are not 10 games. Ok, so you don't do that, then what do you do? Re-review every game? give 9.9 games 10, and 9.8 games 9? If you do that, it's no better, as it's just some arbitrary thing like what they did. If the site has a policy of "no 10s unless it's a 10", then they can do that. Yet is that clearly stated? And did they just do that for the 95-99 games, or all other games? If they did it for others, then it's being lazy. A 17 game rounds up to a 2, not rounds down to a 1. I could see the owner of that site thinking "Well, I would rather everyone play the games we reviews, and think they are better then then review, then think they are worse. Let's just lower the score's of all games, and error on the side of caution". Again, you don't just round down all of them. This is not about the reviews. It's about the math. If they feel some games don't work, then they should state they are adjusting those games, not just hacking off numbers. Why does that bother you? If you are letting GTAIV motivate you to post this, you need to review your priorities in life my friend :) God, the old fanboy assunmption fallacy. I'm almost tempeted to flip you off for "deciding" my motivation for this, but I will not since I'm not going to be rude here. This is based on the objective numbers, and the objective laws which they are run. Just because you think there is bias driving that only proves you think there is bias, not that there actually is. |
EDIT: I take back the flipping off comment. I was letting my emotions get a little out of hand, even just a little.
A flashy-first game is awesome when it comes out. A great-first game is awesome forever.
Plus, just for the hell of it: Kelly Brook at the 2008 BAFTAs
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