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Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis (www.statsignificant.com)
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[โ€“] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol no

User ratings usually tell the story while the official ratings are usually the other way around

It's so easy to see where RT was paid for good numbers that it's laughable at this point.

Don't trust RT further than you can throw it

[โ€“] HereIAm@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

A tomato is famously a pretty throwable veg though... Unless it's so rotten it falls apart as you pick it up I guess ๐Ÿ˜„