Review Scores

Review rating system.

 

I’ve seen and read alot of reviews out there, that use a various degree of reviewing techniques and scoring systems and I must say out of all of them, I believe the 5 out of 5 scoring method is the most accurate one that could give a review. The reason for this is that if something is good it would recieve a score of say either 70 out of 100 or 6/10 or 65% or simply it was good. I feel these scoring methods are not a good representation of the overall score because no matter what a reviewer says or how he/she puts it, it’s still a score based off their opinion.

So say for example somone reviews a book and gives it 7 out of 10, another person may read that score and think that thats not high enough score for the book, or the vice versa may happen and the reader may see the score as abit too high. I believe  that by giving a score out of five, is more, should i say, broader less opinioned point of view. Let me explain; the reason I say this is that a score 3/5 would come across as an average score, either side of this mark would bring the score into either great status or less than good. Where as 5/10 is too broad a score to fully represent a review because the scorer basically says that you will either love or hate it, which when buying a product is risky because what happens if you hate it? its a question that buyers will think and thus is no help.

I believe that by giving my book, movie and game reviews a score out of five shows a more concise straight to the point score and that in terms of opinion, it may differ from one person to the next but, the score difference between two differing opinions will be no greater than a single number, unless of course that other person really believes in the exact opposite of your opinion which ive come to learn is very rare.

Ive been using this scoring technique on my own game and movie collection and in fact only games and movies from 4/5 and 5/5 are worth keeping in my eyes, whilst alot of the movies and games that ive impulsed bought or watched more than once tend to be around the 3/5 and 4/5 range. When speaking with freinds about a movie, 9 times out of 10 we are close to agreement either 4/5 or 3/5 the difference is never really too great.

And so I have decided on this scoring method for it is concise, straight to the point and caters to nearly everyones ideals on what a score out of five represents.

Below is my scoring method, as i’ve said ive tried to keep it as concise as i believe a reviewer can get, without showing too much bias.

1/5 – Not very good, lacking in all areas.

2/5 – An aquired taste,that is also lacking in some areas that keep it down.

3/5 –Average, good for a first timer, however may only be worth one read, watch, play through.

4/5 – Good, will be worth having a look at and should be considered worth buying.

5/5 – Excellent, undoubtably worth getting and is not one to miss.

 

The other thing I should mention is that I do not really enjoy writing negative reviews, if I were to do so, they would be short and straight to the point.

Thanks for reading.