I think Metacritic should do away with it's 'Overall score'. Ratings for personal experiences are fine but art is not numerically measurable
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Genuinely like that idea. Rounding off the average may not solve the problem, but it would definitely put out a few fires.
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People place far too much weight on a few percentage points based on an average of subjective scores with differing scales.
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"This game is 2% better appreciated than this one" is an interesting thing, though. The data isn't necessarily bad.
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It is though when you take into account how the score can be pulled down by someone having a bad day, ill etc
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That's a very narrow minded definition of art.
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I don't really understand numbered scores. Like why do people feel the need to have someone tell them that a (c)
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(c) complex work of art HAS to be boiled down to an arbitrary number? Then freak out if the number isn't the same as theirs?
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I blame statistics. Metacritic is all about statistics and that's easier to do via percentage.
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I think it's fine for an overview of consensus (50% deltas are informative). Problem is what some do with it (see New Vegas)
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