Surely the analytics team at netflix has looked at this in depth and decided their current strategy is the most truthful and reliable. When you start polling pe

Surely the analytics team at netflix has looked at this in depth and decided their current strategy is the most truthful and reliable. When you start polling people vs looking at raw usage data, you end up with people voting ideologically vs their true preferences. Probably. It would be very interesting to hear from someone on the analytics team about how viewership data impacts show renewal, but I suspect this algorithm is super-secret sauce that keeps them profitable compared to their competitors.