Quote Originally Posted by Smoked! View Post
It is interesting to see the variance in verbal descriptions of flavor and compare them to the check-box form responses, which seem to plot very closely together or fall within one standard deviation ( I guess that's how you eliminate the occasional outliers.)
I wonder if other items should be asked or graded in order to get a more accurate review. It is odd to me when a review comes in that gives the cigar tastes A's and even A+'s, but then under "buy a box", it is given a "Maybe". There must be other factors that we are not fully exploiting (is that the right word?). Perhaps if we gave grades for appearance, construction, burn, draw, ash, smoke, etc. the "buy a box" column would make more sense.

Off topic... whoever had the bright idea to have 17 participants review 5 cigars is insane...

-Buzz