Recommended Reading: How reliable are internet movie ratings?
‘Ghostbusters’ is aperfect example ofhow internet movieratings are brokenWalt Hickey,FiveThirtyEight
The reboot of the 1984 classic hits theaters this weekend, but the criticism of the new Ghostbusters has been flying for months. FiveThirtyEight takes a close look at internet ratings for the film as a way of showing that you shouldn’t always rely on those numbers when making a decision about which movie to see. “People put far too much faith in numbers that are preliminary, decontextualized and, in the end, oversimplified,” Hickey concludes.
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