A point that I tried to make over on one of the P&J threads to no avail, but "consensus" used to be a perfectly good word meaning "collective opinion" and "general agreement" and the like; i.e, it means near unanimity. It doesn't mean "the median choice" or "gets a plurality/majority of the votes" or "more people think this than not" or "an average of all the scores" or anything of the sort. George W. Bush was not the consensus choice as man most qualified to be president. He merely won an election (the second time around).
(Of course "Freak Like Me" may well be a Poptimist unanimous choice. Most tracks won't score so high.)
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Date: 2006-02-10 06:43 pm (UTC)(Of course "Freak Like Me" may well be a Poptimist unanimous choice. Most tracks won't score so high.)
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