What is an 'average' rating for a club
Would like to get some thoughts about this. I have a suspicion that the ratings on here are biased to the upside. What finally prompted me to open this query was a review I just read on a club in Indianapolis (one I've been thinking of journeying to) where the reviewer essentially trashed the club in his written review but then gave it a 6.7 overall rating. I believe I too have been overly generous in my ratings and especially for the first or second visit to a new club. It just seems unless a guy has had a pretty bad experience he is resistant to giving anything less than a 5 and I include myself in this. So - are we really giving the unvarnished truth or are our ratings reflecting a bit of positive bias?
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But yeah... I agree that a good number of people don't really put much effort into their reviews unfortunately.
I guess I tend to give ratings in the 6 to 8 range, because I try to go to clubs that are better than average.
Better looking dancers adds on points, contact adds on points, extra fun can add on points. The fanciest of clubs is not necessarily a 9 or a 10. It's a combination of club service and reeasonable cleanliness, dancers-their looks, attitudes and how they deliver, which adds up to VALUE. Which I think is the key number.
Having said that, however, the numbers are not that informative. Since there is no subjective criteria, all the ratings are personal based on the most recent encounter, which is fine, we understand that. You just have to take that into account when looking at them. What I find interesting is whether a particular club's rating is rising or falling. That can be somewhat revealing.
I find FONDL's article on "Diffferent types of strip clubs" to be the most helpful way to distinguish between everything that's out there. Unfortunately, the ratings mechanism doesn't incorporate that information.
I think most of us judge and then purchase by impression and reputation more than anything else. That is, can I find what I'm looking for at X club based on what others have found. However, as a marketing type, I know we always make buying decisions based on both both left brain (statistical/scientific) and right brain (creative/emotional)inputs. On TUSCL the ratings numbers provide the left brain rationale while the reviews provide the right brain rationale for our decisions on where to spend our time and money.
See what happens when I respond to these things during working hours!
Sure there are...we just don't see them anymore cuz the Bottom 10/40 got booted again. :)
The overall score is really just an average of the three individual scores that a reviewer gives a club anyways. I never worry about the overall score myself...I just focus on trying to get the individual scores "right" IMO. There are a lot of different ways to get to a "6.7 overall rating"...
5 and below = Mediocre to Awful to Avoid or Closed
6 = Just OK to Average
7 = Above Average to Good
8 = Good to Great
9 = Great to Elite
10 = I've only given one triple 10 rating in a review I didn't post for GGC in Baltimore. Hitting the hat trick on my scale is no easy feat.
Because of how I rate the clubs I see, the numbers tend to be consistent from trip to trip. There are clubs I've reviewed that still received good ratings even though I didn't enjoy the visit. I also tend to pay more attention to the write ups than the numbers, but do take the numbers into account when setting up my hit list for a town.
For example what exactly does Club rating mean. Does it mean rate this clubs facilities, atmosphere, location, mileage, staff or all of the above in combination? What constitutes a 1 club a 5 club or a 10 club. There is no standard in which to judge your review against.
How high of a club rating would you give the following place? It is a near dive neighborhood type strip club with no private lap dance area. Lap dances are given in the open on rock hard chairs that look like they are from a 1950's dining set which are lined up against one of the walls. Lap dances are mostly grinding and there is no skin to skin touching of the privates allowed below the belt. Extras are not available. Most of the liquor is of the cheap variety, beer is mainly the domestic types such as Miller and Bud. The atmosphere could best be described as dark. There is no high tech lighting system an average sound system no DJ the dancers use the juke box. Service varies from waitress to waitress and is usually average so order by the pitcher to make sure you don't run out.
So would you rate this place a 10 how about a 9 or 8. Well the place I described is the number 7 ranked club in the US here on TUSCL the Hip Hugger. I personally would not give this place a club rating above 5 but there are many here who give it a 9 or a 10. I wonder what they would give the Spearmint Rhino in Las Vegas?
So you see that without some kind of guidelines and standards to base a numerical rating system on it is pretty much useless. Just read what people write about a place. There is where the value is in the reviews and ignore the numerical ratings.
My average review is 6.50, with the range between 3.33 (lowest) and 10.0 (highest).