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Name: pluto
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: Some Girls and Emotional Rescue
Date: Monday, December 10, 2018
Time: 5:23:12 AM
Remote Address: 92.3.196.193
Message ID: 318978
Parent ID: 318972
Thread ID: 318957

RE: RE: RE: Some Girls and Emotional Rescue

What I can't get is this paragraph..."Yet the truth of the matter is, 9.14 and 9.05 is the very same rating. So unless you want to be technical, SG scored the very same rating again."

I was enjoying your review of your review, but couldn't quite grasp that paragraph. You gave two different ratings that you said are the same. The actual difference between the two figures, and considering that on your rating scale it only takes a 0.1 difference to move an album from 'OK/Average to 'Good', is actually considerable (relatively). I couldn't see how there could be no difference between 9.14 and 9.05. It didn't seem to make any sense.

My difficulty has been in reconciling your statement re there being no difference between 9.14 and 9.05, to the fact that a mere 0.1 can move an album from average to good by your rating scale.

I think a problem is; there is no definition of what any of the ratings figures mean. For example, what does differentiate a 6.4 from a 6.5? I think it would be a good idea for people here writing reviews, to have a definition for each rating.

I think there is probably more of a qualitative jump between '0K/Average to Good' than can be expressed in bald figures. So if you had a rating definition I think you would be able to show in a much more material way (given what is being rated) through 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 etc etc, just what it takes for an album say, to make the progression from average to good. I can't remember if you said the album review page was staying or not when Gasland closes. If it is continuing I think you could consider giving definitions to your ratings.

It strikes me that when you said there is no difference between 9.14 and 9.05 , you may have been meaning there is no difference between 9.4 and 9.5, but you referenced the 9.14 more than once, so I'm not sure. However, whilst there is a greater difference between 9.14 and 9.05 (did you mean 9.5?) than there is between say 9.4 and 9.5, in the case of the latter there is still a difference of 0.1, and that difference is the crucial difference when it comes to deciding if an album is average or good, for example. From that point of view it doesn't seem to make sense to say that there is no difference between 9.14 and 9.05 (or indeed 9.4 and 9.5), because on your rating scale there demonstrably is.

Btw, I'm pretty sure schools in the U.K. still give grades when marking. To gain entry to Cambridge University for example, you would have to achieve certain grades in certain subjects. Cambridge University btw was founded in 1209 (I looked it up). Arithmetic was never my strong point (even more so, maths), but I'm pretty sure 1209 is 283 years before a certain Mr Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and told you guys where, and who, you are...............

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