Futile (studio album)
by Porcupine Tree

Futile by Porcupine Tree
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 39,316th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 19 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (749th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (7,517th)
Award Best albums of all time (39,316th)

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Porcupine Tree bestography

Futile is ranked 24th best out of 46 albums by Porcupine Tree on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Porcupine Tree is Fear Of A Blank Planet which is ranked number 443 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,884.

Porcupine Tree album bestography « Higher ranked (34,731st)
Staircase Infinities
This album (39,316th)
Futile
Lower ranked (39,610th) »
Insignificance

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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  Track ratingsTrack ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 19 votes)
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av = trimmed mean average rating an item has currently received.
n = number of ratings an item has currently received.
m = minimum number of ratings required for an item to appear in a 'top-rated' chart (currently 10).
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10/28/2024 18:52 Skerns  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 4,97080/100
 
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02/06/2023 10:40 MW19704U  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 6,99059/100
 
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03/04/2021 06:13 MegoEvilBear  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 2,14775/100
 
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08/03/2019 13:32 Pluto11  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 11,70772/100
 
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03/25/2019 09:42 Godspeedyou  Ratings distributionRatings distribution 1,06689/100

Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings)

This album is rated in the top 25% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.6/100, a mean average of 74.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.1.

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