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Huge User Rating Drop?

I know ratings are a bit quirky, but any reason why a film could go from 6.6 to a 3.9 with hardly any new ratings added? It's almost like the math switched mid-stream. I know we also had a bunch of overseas "1" scores before the film was even available elsewhere, but I know that's par for the course with online ratings. We're more interested to why the 2.6 drop overnight could happen. The film's page is here for reference: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14463198/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt (and full disclosure, I'm one of the filmmakers).

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Hi -- this is explained in our Ratings FAQ at 

https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV?ref_=helpsrall#

(see the section that begins with "The rating on my movie has suddenly dropped...")

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We truly appreciate the quick response Giancarlo, but it doesn't really explain why we were at a 6.6 with 126 votes and then dropped to a 3.9 with only 7 more votes. Unless there is some additional math behind the scenes, those numbers don't quite add up, right?

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@oste0081​ The math is correct. As documented in the FAQ, different votes have different weight on the aggregate rating. On a title with only 133 votes (so far) it doesn't take a lot of votes to change the rating significantly.