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A TV show's overall rating vs its average episode rating.
Is it fair that the overall rating of a TV show is lower than the average of its episode ratings? For example, if you look up Call Me Kat, the show's overall rating is 4.7. Every episode of Call Me Kat is 5.1 and higher. The average of all 13 episodes is 6.7. Isn't the 4.7 overall rating misleading? I first noticed this apparent problem when looking at The Trouble With Maggie Cole which has an overall rating of 6.4 but every single episode is 7.0 and higher. I rarely bother with shows that have a rating of lower than 7.0, if I had only gone by the overall rating, I might have missed an entertaining show. I believe that a show that has episodes should have an overall rating that is the average of the episode ratings
adrian
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5 years ago
They are two different ratings. I'd say more people rate episodes and not the show as a whole. (For me, rating a show that is in progress doesn't make sense.0
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a970
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5 years ago
People who rate episodes are more likely to have highly rated the series. After all, if people don't much care for the series (after having seen only an episode or three), they aren't going to watch other episodes and rate them. The result is that episodes will tend to have higher ratings than the series as a whole.
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