![]() and Canada in 2016, according to the most recent annual study by the Motion Picture Association of America. Women accounted for 52 percent of moviegoers in the U.S. Even the vaunted IMDb Top 250 - nominally the best-liked films ever - is worth taking with 250 grains of salt. The Academy Awards rightly get criticized for reflecting the preferences of a small, unrepresentative sample of the population, but online ratings have the same problem. It’s a worthwhile question, and lately it’s made it pretty hard for us to take the ratings provided on IMDb, the largest and most popular movie site on the internet, at face value. ![]() So why aren’t we more skeptical of movie ratings that do the same thing?
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