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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: The Legend of Ruby Sunday - first thoughts
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 13:49:29 -0000 (UTC)
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The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> In article <v4pa99$lhi8$1@dont-email.me>,
> The Last Doctor  <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Actually Dave, 1.5 +7 +8 +9 +9 -> 34.5 /5 -> 6.9, but thanks for playing. 
>>> 
>>> Since Aggie never properly watches the programme and never seems to
>>> understand it, you should probably ignore him anyway and use a weighted
>>> average that ignores his spurious outliers.
>>> 
>>> 7 +8 +9 +9 -> 33 / 4 -> 8.25 
>> 
>> And before someone says I shouldn’t ignore Aggie’s rating just because I
>> don’t like it - I’m not. 
>> 
>> Objective evidence shows that about 5.5% of people are rating the episode
>> at about 2 or less. So Aggie’s vote would be weighted fairly in a sample of
>> 20 ratings. I’d probably include it from about 15, myself, to be fair.
>> However as his rating likely falls at or below the 5% mark, it should not
>> be included in a sample of 5 (or counted as follows - 5% of 4.25 is 0.2125,
>> so count Aggie as 25% of a vote) for best accuracy overall.
>> 
>> 1.5+7+8+9+9 = 34.5 /4.25 = 8.18. Easier to ignore for the sample size
>> given.
>> 
> 
> Still high.

Not clear what you’re thinking Dave. 8.18 is pretty high - as is 8.25. Both
of them are well below iMDB’s current level of 8.7 for the episode.

So if you’re thinking 8.2 is too high - you’re aligned with less than 20%
of iMDB reviewers.

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