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Can IMDb’s Ranking System Be Trusted? (wearemel.com)
3 points by mxfh on March 8, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


> As you can see, these voters — the ones that manage to break through the algorithm — are overwhelmingly male and between the ages of 18 and 29.

Males rated the movie 9.3, females rated it 9.2. That's close enough that there being more males than females is irrelevant.

> It’s also interesting to note that the breakdown is mostly international, and these high-scoring movies seem like what you might be into if you were perhaps, a young person in South America or the Middle East who was trying hard to show that you had “good” American taste.

US users rated the movie 9.3, non-US users rated it 9.2, so as with male/female this is insignificant (and if it was significant it is in the wrong direction for the author's point as the international users rated the movie lower).


> Males rated the movie 9.3, females rated it 9.2. That's close enough that there being more males than females is irrelevant.

That's not the point the author is making at all. His point is the exact sentence you quoted.

Of course the highest ranking movie is going to be equally favored by males and females. You should expect that for it to be ranked above all others.

If you require seeing numbers that "look different" to understand, check farther down the list.


I know people who wouldn't watch a movie if it has an IMDB ranking of less than 7. LOL




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