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From: mark@hp-kirk.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Most Popular Movie - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 03:25:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 03:25:20 1983
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hp-kirk!mark    Jun 13 08:35:00 1983

Television (which doesn't sell tickets) uses per cent of viewing audience as
a criteria for judging a show's popularity.  This criteria has many drawbacks
with regard to tv (such as time of show, what competing networks are showing,
etc.); however, these drawbacks don't apply to theaters and the criteria is a
good one (though the means of measuring it can be questioned).

A good means of evaluating the popularity of movies (that should be fairly
independent of when it was introduced) is to compare number of viewers with
the total available population.

                                        "Death" Rowe
                                        hp-pcd!hp-cvd!mark
                                        Corvallis, Oregon