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A ten out of ten is not a score, it is a statement

We pretend the scale is linear while using only its top third.

Дмитрий Киров · 1 min read · 14 August

Anything below seven means "do not bother", not "average". So we really have three working steps, not ten, and every time we perform a precision that does not exist.

Four steps with an explanation attached to each would be more honest. But the ten-point scale suits aggregators rather than readers — they need a number that can be averaged.

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They fixed it later is not an argument about what happened

No Man's Sky launched in August 2016, a regulator cleared it of misleading advertising, and the players were still right.

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Nostalgia is a bad argument but a good question

"It used to be better" is almost always false. What sits behind it is a real observation.

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We have forgotten how to write about hardware without numbers

Measurements have crowded out the description of how something feels.

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