The weird shapes at the bottom of the graph are because there are too few data points
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So its hard to make a bad documentary but easy to fuck up horror.
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What is a news movie?
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At the top of the chart, the ratings spread out. To me, this shows broad appeal. And, I think we've all learned that the more people who vote, the closer to a bell curve the ratings look, with the middle getting the most votes. Which is why so many popular movies have middling ratings.
The higher ratings near the bottom show niche appeal, few people voting, but a more loyal audience.
I could be wrong. I never took stats in school.
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Who's going to IMDB to rate adult movies?
Horror just gets no respect as a genre. A score of 6 and 7 is actually pretty good. So rare for a horror movie to crack 8.0.
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The website Bloody Disgusting is better for horror fans IMO. Also I think whoever made this shouldn't have included genres with so few data points.
That said, the Animation spread is interesting, leans towards higher rating but also a long tail into lower scores.
I'm amused that they're mostly normal distributions until you get to the chaotic distributions of reality and talk shows... then there's the cat-shaped distribution of gameshows.
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This chart confuses me. First off the lines for each movie are weirdly high. Second, the color gradient is clearly to make this look pretty instead of readable. Third reality TV and talk show having low movie counts makes sense but 3 movies that are "game show" movies? Just off the top of my head Slumdog Millionaire, The Luckiest Man in America, The Running Man, Death Race, and Gamer are all game show movies. So I'm not sure how they're sorting this. I also probably wouldn't include any genres that don't have enough movies to make sure you have a good sample
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All data should look like a bell curve with enough samples.
Usually around 30-40 is enough.
But not always.
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