Why The Average NG Review Score is Not -5

Our review scale goes from 0 to -10. Why then, with the recent public release of easy to reach statistics based on our reviews, is our average not -5? It’s a question I want to answer now rather than later as it’s an inevitable basis for criticism and I would rather have it debunked before it’s used.

Before I go on I want to take a quick side-track to explain why I’ve made this data so easy to access; most sites don’t. My reason to list this information is basically because I can and I’m interested to know it myself. If I’m interested to know what the standard deviation of our reviews is 1.9 then chances are somebody else out there is too.

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