Post by damngumby on Nov 8, 2017 12:10:41 GMT
Right, I'm sure it's been covered many times before, but I still can't understand how adjusted scores can go up and down (as they did in the top 10 of that list over a few weeks in the summer when I was folowing them) whilst RT score, number of reviews - total, fresh and rotten, and average rating all remained the same. What is this mystery factor that seems to vary for each film.
It’s not the same group of critics used for the true RT score. It’s explained a bit better on the 100 Top Movies page. RT uses a “discrete” group of critics for their adjusted score. Who these people are is not revealed. It’s not the full group of RT critics that we can all see ... it’s not even the “Top Critics”. A comparison between Logan and TDK scores illustrates that pretty conclusively. The observation that the adjusted score will change even when there has been no change to the true RT score indicates that any input from this small “discrete” group of critics is completely independent of the RT reviews.
GIGO