How is the average review score calculated?

[yoonseok312]

How is the average score calculated (round off / round up / round down)?
For instance, if the average score of review is 2.67 (3,3,2 from each reviewer), would that be considered as average score of 2.5 or 3?

[SebastinSanty]

@yoonseok312 The scores rounded off to the nearest 0.5. Which means 2.67 would be 2.5 and anything above 2.75 would be 3. Note that we do this binning only to visualize the scores in form of a distribution on the stats page, otherwise all the scores are sent to venues as it is.

The actual formula used for computing is here:

round(sum(review_scores_list)/len(review_scores_list) * 2)/2

Does this answer your question?

(Also, thanks for raising this issue. I will add this information on the page)

[SebastinSanty]

Also, thinking about it again, maybe rounding it down may make more sense here.

[yoonseok312]

Thank you for your reply!
Yes, this answers my question. I also thought round down would make more sense, but as long as the documentation on the webpage is clear it's not a huge deal :)