Why Do So Many People Have Mean Scores Below 6?

On this website, a 5 means "average" which imo is basically "watchable" tier anime that isn't really good or bad, but holds your interest enough to watch it which means they don't dislike it at least.

If they had means scores of 4 or below that's when I'd really start wondering if they're a masochist lol... although some people do enjoy watching trash just to laugh at it too even if they acknowledge it's trash after the fact.

Take for example something like Henkei Shoujo, do you think anyone watches that because it's good?

Don't think of scores in absolute numbers. Think of them as relative to the mean.

So if you give a 8/10, but your mean is 7, the real score for that show is +1.
If I give a 8/10, but my mean is 5, my real score is +3.




This means someone with a lower mean likes an 8/10 show a lot more than someone with a higher mean.


It's the other way around. Whenever I found a show that is better than 10/10 I had to push everything else down.

@aweebwhoexists

Not that I disagree with you, but I do think it makes more sense for someone's average score to be at least a 6.

Cause think about it, 5 is not the average of everything you have seen, it's average... in general, watchable, fine, ok, as you said it yourself.


What I'm saying is, 5 would only be the average of the list, if you watched an equal amount of anime that are better and worse than watchable... but most people seek good shows far more than average or bad ones.

So unless you are an avid bad media enjoyer, or are REALLY bad at telling how good something is before watching it, your average score should probably be above a 5.

Huh, that's actually interesting to me cause one of my close friend always says the exact same thing, but I kinda don't get this.

Maybe I'm just too nerd brained, but the way I see it, it makes no sense for the adjustments to ever be that big.

if 5 is average, and anything below is subpar, it makes no sense for the show you consider "great" to ever get to that point. The way you go about finding a new best, or new worst, is making every score, have a larger gap of quality.

Let me fully nerd out for a second.

If you find a show that is an entire score above what you previously considered a perfect 10, so, if you have an 11/10.... sure, you would have to decrease the score of everything else to match it, but it would still not be by an entire point.

an entire point from the new 11/10, while still using 10 numbers, is 10% of 11....

which brings down the initial value to a 9.9, which means every time you do it, you are losing 0.1 worth of score on every single thing that you have rated, making your rankings go down for no reason...

and that is IF the new 10 is an entire score above your last 10. realistically, finding something that is a whole level above the best thing you have ever seen, is going to be damn near impossible.

so in a more realistic setting, your new best 10, is only a little better than your old best 10, which means you're more likely to be losing a lot more than just 0.1 score value every time you do it.

I mean think about it this way, if you just decrease the score of everything by one every time you get a new best 10, what do you do with your 1s?

The range of quality in your 1s is going to get WAY too big if you do that a few times.

So in conclusion....


I have to find a better hobby than thinking this hard about anime ratings.....