The Impulse (track)
by The Flaming Lips
The Impulse appears on the following album(s) by The Flaming Lips:
- Embryonic (track #15) (this album) (2009)
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Track ratings | Avg. track rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! | 11/29/2025 16:45 | Exist-en-ciel | 169,268 | 71/100 |
| ! | 08/27/2025 20:58 |  ExTeaSea | 13,135 | 85/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2024 05:49 | brent13 | 11,318 | 85/100 |
| ! | 11/27/2024 10:33 |  Purplepash | 35,456 | 76/100 |
| ! | 06/25/2024 01:16 |  AAL2014 | 40,701 | 76/100 |
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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 is rated in the top 4% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 80.7/100, a mean average of 80.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.6/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.8.
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