> Critics in general are bad signals. Critics may be bad signals when conditioned on the things that you individually prefer. this is hardly an objective measu

> Critics in general are bad signals. Critics may be bad signals when conditioned on the things that you individually prefer. this is hardly an objective measure. Your preference for user ratings could also be biased towards the kind of things that you enjoy about movies, which may align more with non-critics, while at the same time my preference for (aggregrated) critic ratings could be biased towards the things i enjoy about movies, which might align more with critics; those two sets of things might not exactly be the same. (i.e. there could be tribes that rate enjoyableness differently) Lastly, there is this [1], which is tangential to your claim but worth considering what a good distribution of ratings should look like. Now even though the analysis isn't perfect, it's still interesting that _if_ the assumptions of the analysis were true, metacritic has the most well-behaved distribution. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15108071