I was getting annoyed with how many reviews on r/Scotch were exactly 86/100, so I scraped the last 1000 posts to see if it was really overused or just confirmation bias.
Other facts about the dataset:
n: 484 (because not every post to r/Scotch is a review with a score out of 100)
mean: 82.4
median: 85
standard deviation: 9.8
Obviously this is very left-skewed and the mean is nowhere near 50. This is reasonable, because the reviewers tend to taste and review bottles they expect to be pretty good. However, this means it's hard to know how good a Scotch is compared to all reviewed Scotches using its rating in isolation. To help with that, here are the deciles of the dataset:
How to tell people don’t know what they’re talking about — they rate everything just high enough to avoid justifying any harsh criticism, while still being low enough to avoid explaining what makes it exceptional. 86/100 seems to fit that perfectly. You also see it in movie/music reviews all the time
I'm going to name my Scotch "86/100" so reviewers end up giving it that rating, but then everyone thinks they're being funny and end up buying it to try it. Then they debate over whether or not the "86/100" rating is ironic or true. Free advertising.
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GradeATractor on October 7th, 2018 at 17:45 UTC »
I was getting annoyed with how many reviews on r/Scotch were exactly 86/100, so I scraped the last 1000 posts to see if it was really overused or just confirmation bias.
Other facts about the dataset:
n: 484 (because not every post to r/Scotch is a review with a score out of 100)
mean: 82.4
median: 85
standard deviation: 9.8
Obviously this is very left-skewed and the mean is nowhere near 50. This is reasonable, because the reviewers tend to taste and review bottles they expect to be pretty good. However, this means it's hard to know how good a Scotch is compared to all reviewed Scotches using its rating in isolation. To help with that, here are the deciles of the dataset:
10%: 73
20%: 77
30%: 81
40%: 83
50%: 85
60%: 86
70%: 87
80%: 88
90%: 91
Source: Reddit API
Tools: python matplotlib
nachosR2good on October 7th, 2018 at 18:09 UTC »
How to tell people don’t know what they’re talking about — they rate everything just high enough to avoid justifying any harsh criticism, while still being low enough to avoid explaining what makes it exceptional. 86/100 seems to fit that perfectly. You also see it in movie/music reviews all the time
zomgitsduke on October 7th, 2018 at 19:44 UTC »
I'm going to name my Scotch "86/100" so reviewers end up giving it that rating, but then everyone thinks they're being funny and end up buying it to try it. Then they debate over whether or not the "86/100" rating is ironic or true. Free advertising.