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From: tugs@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Hull)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: All-time top grossers and inflation query
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Date: Thu, 11-Aug-83 14:50:30 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 11 14:50:30 1983
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Here's another idea for rating poopularity of films:
Take attendance figures and divide by the population for a per capita figure.
Then of course you have an advantage for films that have been around for a long
time, but specifying an arbitrary cutoff time from the film's initial release
would be unfair to films that only got an audience later in their existence,
such as Citizen Kane. So divide by the number of years it's been out,
subtracting years it was withdrawn from circulation. But then you're being
unfair to films which were very-popular-but-I'd-never-bother-to-see-it-again.
Maybe one should be unfair to such films...
  steve hull
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