r/Muse voting results

You were asked to pick the best song of two random options. You were then given new options to vote for

49238

votes later

Song Win rate Stockholm Syndrome 85.26% Knights Of Cydonia 83.83% Citizen Erased 82.90%

508 of you voted and only 19 accounted for more than 50% of the votes

Since those 19 people are overrepresented, weighted votes are necessary. Voters with more than 400 votes has their votes weighted to represent a total weight of 400

Weighted votes changes things quite a bit!

Song Win rate Citizen Erased 87.79% Stockholm Syndrome 87.67% New Born 86.33%

We are not done yet,

Some songs has had some easier matchups than others. With 49238 votes you would think it cancels out but not quite and we can use some math to artificially correct this based on average opponent win rate for each song

We now have the final results. Last correction didn't change it that much but it erased our beloved citizen

Song Win rate Stockholm Syndrome 87.35% Citizen Erased 86.84% New Born 85.76% Map Of The Problematique 81.98% Plug In Baby 81.41% Hysteria 79.65% Knights Of Cydonia 77.17% Bliss 76.74% Reapers 76.12% Assassin 75.56%

Stockholm Syndrome

is r/Muse's most liked song based on the votes, and that is despite all the praise for Citizen Erased. Go listen to it now and while you are at it, here is our top 50 Spotify ordered playlist

Sorry Chris

But apparently we won't Save you. Harshly put, here are the worst album songs

Song Win rate Aftermath 35.86% Sober 35.69% Escape 35.55% Soldier's Poem 32.58% I Belong To You 31.40% Guiding Light 28.57% Overdue 26.55% Drones 24.99% Revolt 24.92% Save Me 23.37%

Don't feel too bad about Save Me though. Bedroom Acoustics is the lowest ranked song overall and was only picked 12.85% of the times, which is about 2 times worse

Actually, let's compare some songs

Win Rates, go away

When comparing songs, win rates doesn't give the best feel for the actual difference between them. A song with a 99.5% win rate is about twice as good as one with 99% despite the numbers themselves being very close. The following graph explains win rate to score conversion which we use to compare songs



Which also means Stockholm Syndrome is 46.8 times better than Bedroom Acoustics



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Aftermath Agitated Animals Apocalypse Please Ashamed Assassin Assassin - Grand Omega Bosses Edit Bedroom Acoustics Big Freeze Blackout Bliss Butterflies and Hurricanes Cant't Take My Eyes Off You Cave Citizen Erased City Of Delusion Coma Con-science Crying Shame Dark Shines Dead Inside Dead Star Defector Do We Need This? Drones Easily Endlessly Escape Eternally Missed Execution Commentary Exo-Politics Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 [Overture] Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 [Cross-pollination] Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 [Redemption] Explorers Falling Away With You Falling Down Feeling Good Fillip Follow Me Forced In Fury Futurism Glorious Guiding Light Hate This and I'll Love You Hoodoo Host Hyper Chondriac Music Hyper Music Hysteria I Belong To You In Your World Invincible Jimmy Kane Knights Of Cydonia Liquid State Madness Map Of The Problematique Map Of Your Head Megalomania Mercy Micro Cuts Minimum MK Ultra Muscle Museum Nature_1 Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) New Born Overdue Panic Station Piano Thing Pink Ego Box Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want Plug In Baby Psycho Reapers Recess Resistance Revolt Ruled By Secrecy Save Me Screenager Shine Shine(Acoustic) Showbiz Shrinking Universe Sing For Absolution Sing For Absolution [Acoustic Radio 2] Sober Soldier's Poem Space Dementia Spiral Static Starlight Stockholm Syndrome Sunburn Supermassive Black Hole Supremacy Survival Take A Bow The 2nd Law: Isolated System The 2nd Law: Unsustainable The Gallery The Globalist The Groove The Handler The Small Print Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist Time Is Running Out Twin Undisclosed Desires Unintended United States Of Eurasia Unnatural Selection Uno Uprising Yes Please

Aftermath Agitated Animals Apocalypse Please Ashamed Assassin Assassin - Grand Omega Bosses Edit Bedroom Acoustics Big Freeze Blackout Bliss Butterflies and Hurricanes Cant't Take My Eyes Off You Cave Citizen Erased City Of Delusion Coma Con-science Crying Shame Dark Shines Dead Inside Dead Star Defector Do We Need This? Drones Easily Endlessly Escape Eternally Missed Execution Commentary Exo-Politics Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 [Overture] Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 [Cross-pollination] Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 [Redemption] Explorers Falling Away With You Falling Down Feeling Good Fillip Follow Me Forced In Fury Futurism Glorious Guiding Light Hate This and I'll Love You Hoodoo Host Hyper Chondriac Music Hyper Music Hysteria I Belong To You In Your World Invincible Jimmy Kane Knights Of Cydonia Liquid State Madness Map Of The Problematique Map Of Your Head Megalomania Mercy Micro Cuts Minimum MK Ultra Muscle Museum Nature_1 Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever) New Born Overdue Panic Station Piano Thing Pink Ego Box Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want Plug In Baby Psycho Reapers Recess Resistance Revolt Ruled By Secrecy Save Me Screenager Shine Shine(Acoustic) Showbiz Shrinking Universe Sing For Absolution Sing For Absolution [Acoustic Radio 2] Sober Soldier's Poem Space Dementia Spiral Static Starlight Stockholm Syndrome Sunburn Supermassive Black Hole Supremacy Survival Take A Bow The 2nd Law: Isolated System The 2nd Law: Unsustainable The Gallery The Globalist The Groove The Handler The Small Print Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist Time Is Running Out Twin Undisclosed Desires Unintended United States Of Eurasia Unnatural Selection Uno Uprising Yes Please

Place Song Win rate Score 1 Citizen Erased 87.79% 87.79% 1 Citizen Erased 87.79% 87.79%

I know there is not much meaning to saying a song is twice as good as another because we don't have a solid way of defining that. But the numbers can be used to tell whether the difference between two songs are greater than the difference between two other songs

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