Don't Just Look at the Ratings -- A Closer Look at Pitchfork's Numbers, Part 1: Genre Bias

If you clicked on this on facebook because of this
bullshit MGMT picture, you got got.  Please read
the article anyway.

I guess just a warning that this post will be unlike anything anyone is used to reading on Sad Moth.  Some of you will hate it.  Well, most of you will probably hate it.  But I enjoy doing it, and this is just the first of a series of these, so get used to it.  I guess I just ask that you try it, and don't immediately turn your brain of the first time you see a graph and go jag it instead.

It's kind of a spoiler to put my big conclusion in the second paragraph of the first post of this series, but here it is.  Don't just look at the numbers on Pitchfork.  You don't know what you're getting yourself into.  Rating music is completely subjective, and putting it on a numerical scale is even more so.  But there are some things that can be expected of these ratings.  If Pitchfork wants their ratings to mean something, they need to be unbiased in all their ratings.  In other words, if Pitchfork wants to rate every one of their albums on the same scale, they need to actually do that in practice.

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