Averages, the more of a sample you have the better the average! Since you used the golf comparison I'll stick with it. Numbers are never perfect because CHOICE always affects the averages.
If a golfer chooses to play courses that are always in their wheel house their average will be better than if the play nothing but tough courses.
This hobby is the same. You have ladies that choose to ONLY see guys that review ladies with exceedingly high scores. Then you have hobbyist for some crazy reason that will see a lady that has 9 rippoff alerts!
Then there is the chance of YMMV or in golf you have the weather and the day the grounds keepers mow the grass.
I do agree with you that averages get deluded over time in one manner or another and that a calculation based on the last X amount of time might be a better average of what a person may get today! Of course that system may not be worth a crap either. Lets say TER only posts the averages of the last 6 months worth of reviews. If a lady has been around and only gets 1 review every 6 months and another lady is new and gets 20 reviews, the numbers will be askew as well.
Basically there is no perfect system when it involves human nature, time, memory and fantasy.
I will say this about the hobby and golf though...my best round of golf was with a lady I met right here on TER we played her course in St. Paul and she surprised me with a hole in one and a par 5 on the back 9! I give extra credit to a lady that can plan out and prepare for a surprise like that! No score card here on TER about that round! You can't find ladies that provide surprises like that by reading the reviews or looking at averages, some times you just have to TOFTT!
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