A six? Who in their right mind gave this a 6? Even if the fidelity were a 4 (which it certainly isn't), the material being a stone cold 10 would make this an eight. It's a ten from me and one of the most important surround releases ever, but I can at least squint to see how someone could possibly grade it an eight. A six is a joke.
Such is the workings of the internet and democracy in general, whereby anyone registered, regardless of their capacity, may vote anonymously.
Have a look over at the
Wish You Were Here poll, where someone has posted a 2:
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...-here-blu-ray-audio.15174/page-12#post-581449
*Strokes goatee and adjusts spectacles*
If one was approaching this as a researcher conducting a clinical trial, this phenomenon could be defined as an outlier. An outlier is a value that is so far from the others, that it appears to have come from a different population. The presence of outliers can invalidate many statistical analyses.
They can arise from invalid data entry, experimental mistakes, biological diversity, random chance or wrong assumption.
Identifying these outliers is ultimately a subjective exercise. It can be legitimate to remove outliers, provided that this is pre-specified and disclosed in the rules for voting.
The method of presenting the polls with or without outliers may be as follows:
1) Keep the outlying observations in the database, with a flag
2) Show a graph with all values, and the outliers identified/marked
3) Report how many outliers were excluded from the primary analysis, and the criteria used to identify the outliers
4) Consider reporting the results in two ways: with and without the outliers
The way the polls currently function, the outliers seem to identify themselves. One can reasonably assume that the reason they are there, is that they have been posted from a different population.
*Clears throat and looks at baffled audience*
