Every time I am about to watch a film, I check the ratings online. But there so many metrics available!
Do Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings align?
Do critics
and audience agree?
Let's conduct a test with the James Bond films.
Select the ratings on the vertical axis
aka Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score: % of users who have rated a movie positively
horizontal axis
aka Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer: % of professional critic reviews that are positive
Verdict: the Rotten Tomatoes critics and Rotten Tomatoes users ratings are highly aligned.
Alignment Score (Pearson correlation): 0.87
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