@Ernesto_Wan_Kenobi said:

@sethadam1 said:

50% of shows, by definition, have to be below average.

Only if you are using the Median as your measure of "average". And even then this will not be true if you have an odd number of shows. But seriously I keep hearing this "rule" stated; and it's not true.

Let's say, for example, they play a 4.5, 4.5, 5.5, and then a perfect 10. Well you can find the "mean" of this by adding up the scores and dividing by 4. You get 6.125, and three-quarters of the shows fell below this mark!

Well now we're gettin' our math on, huh? Of course that's true. In a given class, you wouldn't expect 50% of the students to score < 50% for the class. But certainly, there is a 50th percentile somewhere!

By your measure, ratings are totally subjective. You could assign all "10s" and have made no progress. If the idea is to compare the shows against one another, there are going to be 10/10 shows and 1/10 shows (or technically, 0/10).

Either way, the idea is that if there's a such thing as an average show, half the shows are better and half the shows are worse. Eric says *Sunday* was worse and ultimately non-notable. And, as expected, many people have short-term memory syndrome and always believe the last show was "epic", no matter what it was.