Board Thread:Wiki - General Discussion/@comment-3225604-20170818103935/@comment-3225604-20170818162717

PowerCrusher04 wrote:

Although EH and Variable are different things, I think it should still be counted in the episode mean, but since the variable difficulty means it varies from person to person and one can find a variable level as easy as a "very easy" level and the other can find it as hard as a "nearly impossible" level, I think it should get the middleth of all the difficulties and get 4 mean points, like a medium level, (Even though the middleth is technically 5 if you round it, medium still means that it's in "the middle", this is actually another problem, because NI difficulty was introduced and made the difficulty scale "asymetric", as there are more difficulties saying that the level is challenging than there are difficulties saying that a level is easy, I suggest adding a new difficulty, below very easy.) It still fails to address the main problem of the "variable" we have now. The main problem is that we are giving a value to "variable". In my argument, I'm arguing that "variable" is a difficulty that varies from person to person. Adding to my definition of variable from the dictionary, it seems we can never be able to assign a difficulty for a "variable" level. The difficulty is "not consistent", so "variable" cannot be represented by a number alone. "Variable" can also be assumed in forms of different numbers, so mathematically it is incorrect to take a mean of the difficulty in the comments.