Bijan Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 9 minutes ago, SmokyFontaine said: Agreed. The number of times I hear someone complain throughout a whole review of how flat, young, or just not good the cigar is, then give it an 89 is wild to me. If something was barely more than rolled tobacco leaves, that's like, a 40 on my scale. A 90 is a "get at least a couple boxes of these" cigar for me. Yeah it's crazy. I think it's a mental/psychological issue with categorization. People are basically ranking cigars relatively, and not giving them an absolute score. So 89 is worse than everything 90+. This is why I use a 5 point scale myself (1=terrible, 2=barely acceptable/acceptable, 3=acceptable/good, 4=good/great, 5=outstanding). 10 point scale is good too, but that's too many categories for me to categorize things consistently. Sometimes I'll use .5/half scores (3.5, 4.5) if I'm really undecided, so I guess that's kind of a 10 point scale., but I never use 0.5, 1.5 or 2.5, so not quite. Guess I should use a 7 point scale 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites
sw15825 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 It comes down to advertising $$. Yes the Cuban's they throw in are smoking great, but there are a bunch more. Link to post Share on other sites
Cigar Surgeon Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 If anyone cares to watch the Developing Palates Top 25 live broadcast tonight, it's at 6pm PST, 9pm EST tonight. We'll have a YouTube link up on our channel after the video goes live as well. https://www.facebook.com/events/251717953017885/ 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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