Glad to see "Lisa Goes Gaga" as the lowest rated episode. I used to watch the Simpsons religiously but I stopped ~5 years ago. I turned on FOX the other day and happened to catch that episode ... really glad that's the exception and not the rule because it was unwatchable.
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#42Jumping the shark seems to be more perception than reality: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0070992
FWIW that is in Season 5. Season 6 went even higher!
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#43no sqrt(n) error bars?!?
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#44It's pretty clear that something fishy is going on with the ratings distributions here.
It's pretty clear that Simpsons fans hate Lady Gaga and Musicals.
Really, the Lady Gaga episode was awful. And not only because it was a very obvious 22 minute advertisement. It was just plain bad, very bad. I absolutely agree that it's the worst Simpsons episode I've watched.
The individual ratings may not be very "accurate" (well, they're going to be subjective no matter what. My favourite episode is near the bottom of its season), but the trends are interesting. The fact that the floor of seasons 1-9 is above the ceiling of season 14 and onwards (save a few outliers) reflects quite well what many fans think.
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#45This is a great example of how to lie with statistics, or what someone can claim by applying just college-level statistics. Those trend lines are completely worthless.
See the trend lines for Futurama: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0149460 The difference between all the episodes make having a "trend" very doubtful. Especially season 5 is a wildly varying season where if you take one episode away the line would completely flip.
Much the same can be said for The Next Generation http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0092455 where you have basically clouds where seemingly at random a line is drawn through it.
Yes, I know there are statistical methods for determining trends, but without data on their accuracy they are pretty much worthless. And you really should use a threshold for those accuracies if you're presenting this kind of data to a very wide audience.
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#46Funny thing: all star treks except TOS end up higher than they started!
I just worked by way through TNG and DS9. TNG took a while to get it's legs...in today's environment it wouldn't have lasted past season 2. But then it became great television for the rest of the run. DS9 started pretty solid, and became one of the best written pieces of sci-fi TV quickly for a long time.
Really? I started watching the first two seasons, and it's honestly dull.
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#47This is a great example of how to lie with statistics, or what someone can claim by applying just college-level statistics. Those trend lines are completely worthless. See the trend lines for Futurama: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0149460 The difference between all the episodes make having a "trend" very doubtful. Especially season 5 is a wildly varying season where if you take one episode away the line would…
Forfty percent of all people know that.
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#48Pretty predictable plot of Rick and Morty: http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt2861424
I'm not seeing Something Ricked This Way Comes, which is definitely my all time favourite. It's present on IMDb, so I guess this site caches data.
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#49It's pretty clear that something fishy is going on with the ratings distributions here.
The distribution is a result of the low number of ratings. Look at the number of ratings for each episode. For all those early 7.3-7.4 episodes it's about 600 ratings, the higher rated episodes have more ratings. Then from about season 12 there's a drop in number of ratings to about 300-400 for most episodes.
Compare this to the Game of Thrones ratings[1], where each episode has about 3000 ratings.
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#50This graph of The Simpsons illustrates (for me at least) that IMDB is more reflective of the viewing community's weird quirks and biases. Honestly: is "Homer the Smithers" the best episode of The Simpsons? I doubt anyone would truly put it on their "best ever" list. It's really more "solid" than great. Most importantly: it doesn't rub anyone the wrong way. Is "Saddlesore Galactica" one of the worst episodes ever? No.…
> The episode's score reflects a community desire rather than an objective opinion.
I don't really understand your point. You think it's biased for audience members to rate an episode poorly because they didn't enjoy it and didn't think it was funny?