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timtyler comments on Simple theory of IMDB bias - Less Wrong Discussion

-4 Post author: taw 03 January 2012 10:20AM

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Comment author: timtyler 03 January 2012 12:34:06PM 9 points [-]

IMDB top 250 list is dominated by old movies,

With 72 out of 250 movies form the last 12 years, it appears that there's more of a bias towards the present. Perhaps more movies are being made these days - or perhaps people prefer current moveis.

Comment author: magfrump 03 January 2012 07:37:33PM 11 points [-]

There are substantially more movies recently, eyeballing it it looks like about 150 thousand movies were made in the most recent 12 years of the chart, compared to about 350 thousand made in previous years total. That would imply that recent movies are underrepresented very slightly. Removing short films might smooth that slightly, but actually these numbers are about right.

Comment author: Vaniver 03 January 2012 09:18:21PM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for doing the research. Woo null hypothesis!