Tycho Articulates a Problem With Scores
Everyone knows I dislike wine scores. Tycho, from Penny-Arcade, articulates one of the things I dislike about them, even if he's talking about video game reviews.
I often find that I agree with the bodytext of a given piece and then once I arrive at the distilled score there's no way to derive it from the original work. This is because while the body includes useful, interesting information and perspective the score is often used to cement the review in the overall editorial philosophy. Scores are ridiculous and facile, and they are insulting to the reader - they say in clear terms that you are incapable of discerning the meaning of the text above or below.
posted by Derrick @ 4:30 PM
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But how useful are wine notes? Whenever you compare, say, two or three major wine critics notes on the same wine, it's like they each drank something different. How useful is that?
I can see that point, but are you saying that scores help that? (i.e., Tycho's point that they position the reviewed object within the editorial stance)
Or are you saying that wine reviews in general are flawed in terms of providing information?
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