The people who leave IMDB reviews are probably also pretty far away from the average audience - only a small set of people post reviews their and there’s probably a lot of sampling bias towards film nerds.
Really? I would say user reviews on Rotten Tomatoes skews more towards film nerds and IMDb is the more everyday sort of person. Between the two platforms there's a disconnect in users' preferences.
I’d agree, but I think both are very far away from the typical person, who does not post online reviews at all. Maybe the difference isn’t film nerd vs. not, but I’d wager there’s a big difference between an IMDB reviewer and a randomly sampled person.
This was my reaction to the article also - the base assumption that the relatively tiny group of audience members who rate films on imdb are statistically representative of the audience at large needs to be proven first.
