IMDB Weighted Rating vs. Arithmetic Mean
Thank you for checking out the message boards. Please note that the arithmetic mean of reviews for "My Name Was Bette: The Life and Death of an Alcoholic" is above a 9.0 as of this writing (April, 2013), although the odd IMDB "weighted" ratings is much lower. IMDB notes that its formula for determining "weighted" ratings is secret, so we can't explain why the discrepancy is so great.
Please do not be put off by the "weighted" rating. People who watch this film almost to a person have expressed how powerful and informative they find it on the topic of how women's alcoholism. In fact, until this week, when the formula for determining the "weighted" rating must have changed, this documentary was the third most highly rated educational documentary on IMDB.
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