Excel + IMDB = Subjecting the Popular Culture to a Level of Scrutiny it Probably Doesn’t Deserve

Newest Overthinking It post: what happened to the IMDB Top 250 list over the course of a year? Quite a lot, actually. Turns out the list is even more biased towards newer movies than it was before.

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If you like this sort of ridiculous pop culture analysis be sure to check out:

The Hubbert Peak Theory of Rock, or, Why We’re All Out of Good Songs

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Steelers and Steel: Sports Teams and Their Respective Commodities

The Blockbuster Bell Curve: Are we running out of good movies, too? (the original IMDB statistical analysis)

Michael Bay: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis

The Use of Punch and Pie as an Attendance Incentive: A Case Study

 

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