ELI5, why is the scale for how good something is x/5?

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Why do we measure things out of five? Like, 5 star hotels or restaurants? Why is it five and not, say, 37?

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People are bad at math so small numbers are easy to understand. It also is like the A,B,C,D,F scale that people are used to in school. Also, most scales don’t go above 10 because you would reduce them, e.g. 10/20 is the same as 5/10. There is no point to higher numbers.

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