DOC note that greater is better for scorer

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  scorer
  A non-estimator callable object which evaluates an estimator on given
- test data, returning a number. See :ref:`scoring_parameter`; see also
- :term:`evaluation metric`.
+ test data, returning a number. Unlike :term:`evaluation metrics`,
+ a greater returned number must correspond with a *better* score.
+ See :ref:`scoring_parameter`.
 
 Further examples: