Rotten Tomatoes Fake Reviews for #StarWars The Rise of Skywalker
Posted Jan 18, 2020, 9:11 PM UTC
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I just made this comment elsewhere. This would add to my premise- if you limit the verified users only to Fandango purchases, then it’s much easier to make sure your fake reviewers buy Fandango tickets. It insulates your fake votes from competing other votes. This is a tactic some marketing and PR firms use for clients. Fake testimonials, fake reviews. Some Publishing houses do this on Amazon too. It is worth the cost of buying 3000 books (using employees, friends, family) to give it 3000 5-star reviews. It creates a public impression that a lot of people like it. It creates peer pressure of a sort. If people see a lot of high reviews they assume it’s good and are predisposed to thinking they should like it to. Then statisticians roll up to argue that “acktchually... 5000 data points is statistically and scientifically accurate as a reflection of several million people...” My other comment that speaks to that regarding RT:
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acktchually... 5000 data points is statistically and scientifically accurate as a reflection of several million people
Well, because it is - given that you randomize and balance out your sample population, for example in terms of age, gender and in this case nationality (considering China for example which has no Star Wars nostalgia).
A Chinese poll about a new Star Wars movie would of course not be very reflective of Western audiences.
In terms of RT scores, the amount of past reviews of a given user is also a condounding factor.
Pseudo statisticians in defense of Disney also argue that the bigger the sample size, the less likely fluctuations are to be seen - which is also correct, but ignores that the score has not changed a single percentile all the way from 5000 to 70000 reviews. That is statistically extremely unlikely to say the least.
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You missed my entire point that companies don’t randomize and use 3000 paid reviews and then this line is trotted out. It is deception masquerading as science. 5000 is meaningless if your premise starts with 3000 skewed data points. It’s not accurate. It’s garbage.
Edit: context is key. Did you notice I laid out a pattern of behavior that THEN relies on defenders of statistics as a pure science to come along and defend the accuracy of their belief in statistics as a discipline regardless of how it’s being perverted by the company to push a false narrative? This is what I wrote:
“This is a tactic some marketing and PR firms use for clients. Fake testimonials, fake reviews. Some Publishing houses do this on Amazon too. It is worth the cost of buying 3000 books (using employees, friends, family) to give it 3000 5-star reviews. It creates a public impression that a lot of people like it. It creates peer pressure of a sort. If people see a lot of high reviews they assume it’s good and are predisposed to thinking they should like it to. Then statisticians roll up...”
You quoted only what I said next, OUT OF CONTEXT.
Second edit: are you disagreeing with my point that using 3000 paid data inputs invalidates the 5000-is-valid assumption? I am not even sure I know your argument.
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This is hard to watch. More people should check this out.
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86% is a pretty low veriified audience score for a big tent movie.
There is no conspiracy.
Most of the general audience doesn't care about the Reylo kiss or the disjointed plot or the bad characterisation.
General audiences have never cared about this stuff. They're here for exactly the kind of theme park ride that RoS provides.
Posting stuff like this just looks kooky and makes this sub seem unhinged.
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Did you watch the video? The scores AND the reviews are suspect.
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Not only do the reviews look fake, but the score has been locked at exactly 4.31/5 (86%) for at least 75,000 votes out of 92,000.
Suggestions for other subreddits to post this to is appreciated. I’m getting grossed out by all the people defending rotten tomatoes over this.