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- "# Investigating Fandango's movie ratings\n",
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+ "# Is Fandango Still Inflating Ratings?\n",
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"In October 2015, Walt Hickey from Fandango published [a popular article](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fandango-movies-ratings/) where he presented strong evidence which suggest that Fandango's movie rating system was biased and dishonest. In this project, we'll analyze more recent movie ratings data to determine whether there has been any change in Fandango's rating system after Hickey's analysis.\n",
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"The sampling was clearly not random because not every movie had the same chance to be included in the sample — some movies didn't have a chance at all (like those with under 30 fan reviews or those without tickets on sale in 2015). It's questionable whether this sample is representative of the entire population we're interested to describe. It's much more likely that it isn't, mostly because this sample is subject to *temporal trends* — e.g. movies in 2015 might have been outstandingly good or bad compared to other years.\n",
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- "The sampling conditions for our other sample were (as it can be read in the `README.md` of [the data set's repository](https://github.com/mircealex/Movie_ratings_2016_17):\n",
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+ "The sampling conditions for our other sample were (as it can be read in the `README.md` of [the data set's repository](https://github.com/mircealex/Movie_ratings_2016_17)):\n",
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"* The movie must have been released in 2016 or later.\n",
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"* The movie must have had a considerable number of votes and reviews (unclear how many from the `README.md` or from the data).\n",
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Josh Devlin