Saturday, February 01, 2003

 
REVIEW OF REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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Here's the breakdown of how many items have been awarded each possible number of stars by me.

* * * * (4 stars) has been awarded 6 times: 3 restaurants, 2 theater shows, 1 movie, and 0 books.
* * * 1/2 (3 and a half stars) has been awarded 16 times: 10 restaurants, 1 theater show, 2 movies, and 3 books.
* * * (3 stars) has been awarded 18 times: 6 restaurants, 2 theater shows, 4 movies, and 6 books.
* * 1/2 (2 and a half stars) has been awarded 7 times: 2 restaurants, 1 theater show, 2 movies, and 2 books.
* * (2 stars) has been awarded 7 times: 0 restaurants, 0 theater shows, 0 movies, and 7 books.
* 1/2 (1 and a half stars) has been awarded 8 times: 0 restaurants, 1 theater shows, 5 movies, and 2 books.
* (1 star) has been awarded 3 times: 0 restaurants, 1 theater show, 2 movies, and 0 books.
1/2 (half a star) has been awarded once, for a movie.
no stars (0 stars) has been awarded once, for a book.

One of the striking patterns that emerges here is that no restaurant has been awarded fewer than two and a half stars, and only two have been awarded less than three stars. This is not because I am easy on restaurants. Rather, it is because I don't generally review restaurants unless I think they're particularly memorable. I don't review some hole-in-the-wall diner, to say that it's a hole-in-the-wall diner. By contrast, I review almost every single movie, or theater show I see, and almost every single book I read, so those have a more natural distribution.

This is The Official Record. 1:24 AM
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