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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Ranked by Comment/Score Ratio by derefr on Sunday December 10, 2017 @01:41PM (#15892771)
Inflation of both the price of a movie, and of the movie-watching population. The proper ranking would be the inflation-adjusted number of movie dollars spent per capita on a given movie.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Ranked by Comment/Score Ratio by Eyght on Sunday December 10, 2017 @03:05PM (#15893224)
It might be simpler to look at the share of the population that went to see the movie. That should tell us how influential a movie was compared to another.
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