Bad News Beat (track)
by Neil Young
Year: 1986
From the album Landing On Water (track #4)
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Bad News Beat appears on the following album(s) by Neil Young:
- Landing On Water (track #4) (this album) (1986)
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Average Rating = (n ÷ (n + m)) × av + (m ÷ (n + m)) × AVwhere:
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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Showing latest 5 ratings for this track. | Show all 18 ratings for this track.
| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/27/2026 17:42 | Johnnyo | 43,021 | 80/100 | |
| 01/20/2026 19:42 | spinout | 38,983 | 83/100 | |
| 04/05/2025 02:45 |  AAL2014 | 35,798 | 76/100 | |
| 08/30/2024 17:15 |  Tamthebam | 44,696 | 79/100 | |
| 03/25/2024 08:32 | mostlymor | 86,742 | 80/100 |
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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 tracks can have several thousand ratings)
This track has a Bayesian average rating of 65.0/100, a mean average of 58.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 58.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 16.3.
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