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Old 06-26-2014, 02:32 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by Geralt View Post
We all have average taste, don't put yourself on a high pedestal.
The only question is average taste in what genre? That's the big thing.
A book can have great ratings by many, many people in say....romance genre and I wouldn't touch it with a stick, let alone read it. I wouldn't enjoy it.
But if a book has 1.000.000 ratings with 4.8 average and it's a sci-fi...well then, you got a deal. There's a big, big chance I will love that book, same as 1.000.000 sci-fi aficionados before me.
No one has average tastes, the average rating is a combination of different ratings, just as the average number of children in a family might be 1.5 although no family has 1.5 children.

If the average rating of a large number of people reflected my tastes then I would agree with the average rating given to most books, when in fact I usually disagree.
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