[FuturisticLover]

I find IMDb better than RT. RT even though it has an Audience score. It tends to give priority to the Critics' score, which in most cases we know is influential in one way or another.

IMDb score doesn't rely on a group of people, but on all users. It may give a little more weightage to the US users, but that's fine. Its top movies and TV shows make a lot more sense, unlike RT.

[cantor_S_drug]

Tangentially related : It is possible to deanonymize users from kaggle dataset or netflix competition.

https://medium.com/@EmiLabsTech/data-privacy-the-netflix-pri...

Compared to the example of the medical records, Netflix had been very careful not to add any data that could identify a user, like zip-code, birthdate, and of course name, personal IDs, etc. Nevertheless, only a couple of weeks after the release, another PhD student, Arvind Narayanan, announced that they (together with his advisor Vitaly Shmatikov), had been able to connect many of the unique IDs in the Netflix dataset to real people, by cross referencing another publicly available dataset: the movie ratings in the IMDB site, where many users post publicly with their own names.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.857/2018/project/Archie-Gers...

[Gareth321]

I agree. I stopped relying on RT scores years ago. There are far fewer occasions when the audience score doesn't align with my preferences. Today I am so far away from most critics in taste and preference, it's like they live on another planet.