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Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: measuring movie popularity
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Date: Wed, 8-Jun-83 16:01:16 EDT
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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
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