So for my observe I wanted to look into how movies are scored on the popular site Rotten Tomatoes. I believe both the tomatometer and the audience score to be somewhat flawed. For audience score this is mostly due to it being divided up by “liked it” and “didn’t like it” and the fact that due to it being an audience or the public scoring just about anyone can vote in that category whether they had seen the movie or not. Though, tomatometer also has its flaws as pretty much any journalist can claim to be a critic, however it does help to divide it up by top critics and those who are not. Another problem with the meter is that it essentially just takes the average of scores to come up with the rating. This can be flawed as the average can skew due to outliers, so a few people rating a movie a 5/5 though most are lower can skew the rating closer towards a fresh rating.
