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Something I remember reading years ago was, if it’s an important purchase, go read the 3 star reviews. They’re likely more nuanced and offer better pros and cons.
I remember getting an oil change or something and the service advisor asking for me to give a review and “anything less than 10/10 is considered a failure” which really pissed me off. In my mind a 10 out of 10 is “above and beyond amazing” which is simply not something I can do for something like an oil change. I would say “I got out of there driving the same car I went in with in a reasonable amount of time” is the best I would expect and would rate it as 8//10.
Reminds me when I got my first car 15 years ago I got a call to answer a survey about the experience with the sale.
I was giving 3s and 4s and just a few 5s (out of 5) and the rep was very worried that I had a very bad experience. I told him the 3 is good, 4 was very good and they did a few excellent things.
He explained that anything below 5 was very bad feedback to the sales people and everyone involved and that they would get reprimanded for the 3s. I declined to continue the survey
Captain AggravatedThere was some kerfluffle in the gaming press like this; a lot of magazines used to score games out of 10, with a 7/10 being effectively the lowest possible score. “When I booted the game up, my C64 caught fire, as did my Spectrum, which was turned off at the time and not relevant to this review. Then the developer kicked in the door, gave everyone in the building AIDS, then went on a worldwide tour kicking every single puppy. 7/10.”
There was a magazine that was in the habit of actually using the entire scale with a “meh, s’alright” being a 5/10, and some developers outright blacklisted them for it.
It’s like how grades of meat are all positive sounding. Which is the worst grade of meat: Prime, Select or Choice?
I once saw a documentary with the engineer who worked on the toilet equipment such as it was on the Apollo spacecraft. Urine was collected essentially by a condom with a hose at the end, which came in three sizes. Of course none of the astronauts would be caught dead ordering anything but a large so they were labeled “large, gigantic and humongous.”