2.5?
I know this will change soon but it has only 3 votes lower that 5/10 and the majority of votes are 7/10, so why has it got a 2.5? How the f_ck do they work that out?
share It's a "weighted average", achieved through some supr secret recipe. Suppose to make the rating more accurate thn just adding them all together & dividing the number of votes into that. Most likely they are keeping track somehow of voters who are obviously (at least to them) just voting extremely high or extremely low in an effort to changed the rating. This could be by comparing IP's, multiple votes which come in for the same rating in just a matter of a couple minutes, or something like that.
Or it could be just that the extremely high (9 & 10) and extremely low (1 & 2) votes don't actually count as much as the ones in between. This would make sense because almost evey movie ever made NEVER actually deserves a 10, except by an individual who just thinks the movie is the best thing since sex was discovered. And on the flip-side, almost NO movie deserves a 1, except by those who didn't even watch the whole thing.
Truth is, if you DIDN'T watch the whole thing, you really have no idea how to properly rate it. If you DID watch the entire movie, then you obviously found SOMETHING, no matter how tiny, that you were interested in....so it deserves more than a 1.
3's to 8's are much truer ratings than 1, 2, 9, or 10. So those on each side are probably not given as much weight as the other ones.
Ah I see. Its always annoyed me that some movies, such as Dance of The Dead, have blatantly had everyone who had a part in the production of the movie voting it a 10/10, therefore tricking people in buying/going to see it.
Makes sense that they try to avoid this, even though imdb formula doesn't seem 100% accurate. I doubt I'll ever see a 10/10 movie.
Cheers.