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Originally posted by fandango:
My curiosity was awakened when I noticed the gaps between two of the current leaders

Kate Bush - Aerial
(metascore - 89, User score - 97)

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
(metascore - 90, User score - 87)

a one point gap from critics, but a TEN point gap in user ratings!

the first one of course was apporoximetely equal (like Illinois) until ONE low review was added.

I wondered what other discrepancies like this existed.


I think the user ratings are just a straight mean average, unlike the metascores that use a weighted average and are then normalized. I believe this is what causes the discrepancies.
 
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