Metacritic vs Yelp: A Mathematical Analysis

Are video games better than pizza? This ridiculous question requires an elaborate answer. The short answer is “Yes.“ The long answer is this 27-minute video in which I cross-analyze the linguistic patterns of 500 one-star Yelp reviews of famous New York pizzerias and 500 “zero“ Metacritic user reviews of acclaimed triple-A video games. The medium-length answer is that haters on Yelp use almost three times as many exclamation marks, per average, as haters on Metacritic, though Metacritiquers ask twice as ma
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