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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024 8:56 AM

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Desire (1936)

The average user rating of 7.1 seems too low based upon going through the individual user ratings. Is that possible?

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2 months ago

Hi @gyunker,

For more information on how IMDb title ratings are calculated, please see our Ratings FAQ.

Cheers!

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2 months ago

"Going through individual ratings"?

Are you referring to Reviews?

Not everyone who Rates a title Reviews it.

On this page

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027515/ratings/

you see the distribution of the ratings, and the unweighted mean is nearly identical to the weighted mean.

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Thank you very much for your response. Yes, I was referring to reviews when I wrote ratings. Based on just eyeballing the individual reviews the average review seemed low but now that I look at them more closely the average review seems in line with them.