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In addition, for our movie and music sections, all of the weighted averages are normalized before generating the METASCORE. To put it another way that should be familiar to anyone who has taken an exam in high school or college, all of our movies and albums are graded on a curve. Thus the METASCORE may be higher or lower than the true weighted average of the individual reviews, thanks to this normalization calculation. Normalization causes the scores to be spread out over a wider range, instead of being clumped together. Generally, higher scores are pushed higher, and lower scores are pushed lower.
Unless I misunderstand your reaction, you missed my point. I already stated that it uses a weighted arithmetic mean, which is different from the "true weighted average" (as you quote), since that would be the arithmetic mean. In other words, I was already aware that some data points contribute more than others. However, what I wrote is that apparently, somehow, scores can be pushed so high that they are above even the highest individual score. --2001:1C06:19CA:D600:6050:8C06:DA00:38A7 (talk) 12:55, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]