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>>tortil+(OP)
Not really surprising, this is just confirmation of what's been apparent for a while - Audience score is an accurate estimate of the movie, and the tomatometer (the critic score) basically just reflects the political correctness / marketing budget of the movie.

>>genera+Ag2
I like the take of Nassim Taleb on a tangent idea - restaurants in New York that get awards from other restaurant owners have no better change of surviving than the ones not winning awards from peers or critics. You need an external validation, such as real customers.

Also, people that rate movies online may not be representative of the entire movie-watcher population, so that may be, in some cases, also not a very accurate measurement, unless you yourself are a typical movie rater.

In the gaming world, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare got the most disliked trailer ever on YouTube, and still sold more than 13m copies. Somewhat similarly, logic-devoid, low-quality children movies can get as many dislikes as parents want, children will still watch them.

>>gobdov+8r2
I'm sure Taleb has more to say, but I would say that whether a restaurant survives has a loose correlation to the quality of the food. Especially in NYC. There are plenty of thriving restaurants that will serve you garbage food with bad service (Anything in Times Square).

The point is that commercial success in a variety of industries is a result of a variety of factors, product quality is frequently not the most relevant.

That is: a restaurant owner can correctly say that another restaurant has excellent food and service without that being an endorsement of the restaurant's ability to survive as a business.