Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/26/83; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxn!ewp From: ewp@ihuxn.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: measuring movie popularity Message-ID: <251@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jun-83 16:01:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxn.251 Posted: Wed Jun 8 16:01:16 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Jun-83 19:10:45 EDT Organization: BTL Naperville, Il. Lines: 12 Another factor that might be significant in estimating the popularity of a movie is the population increase. I believe that in the early '30s, the US population was only about half what it is today. It would take quite a movie to get 90 million out of 100 million to see it. Then of course there is also the effect of the improvement in mass communications, transportation, the shift of the population from rural to urban areas, the change in the amount of disposable income, ....... Ed Pawlak ihnp4!ihuxn!ewp