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by invaliduser 3631 days ago
Ratings (for movies or whatever) are not broken, they just are a limited model of appreciation by a cohort. All statistical models have their limits, that does not make them «broken», just somewhat inaccurate (ie. with varying levels of accuracy).

The author shows it with the gender of the voters, but it would very probably have been the same with IQ, education level, zipcode, country, income level, etc