ah screw it....I went ahead and did it early....
Fair warning...there's math coming and if you're anything like this guy...
Then I'd suggest you just ignore what's below...however...if you'd like a little more comparison using statistics as to how this show might be getting received, then please read on below:
[sp]When doing statistics and you believe there to be extreme outliers in your study, there's a relatively simple solution...remove the outliers...
So then let's examine each episode's individual rating compared to their current rating...as well as the overall show when we remove all of the "10s" and "1s" from the overall score.
Episode 1:Current Rating:
5.5 Rating with 10s and 1s removed:
5.6 Episode 2:Current Rating:
5.3Rating with 10s and 1s removed:
5.5Episode 3: Current Rating:
3.4Rating with 10s and 1s removed:
4.7Show Overall: Current Rating:
3.5Rating with 10s and 1s removed:
4.8 Now...just looking at this there's an interesting development already...and that is the scores for episodes 1 and 2 hardly changed. When we remove all the 10s and 1s, we get only a deviation of 0.1 and 0.2 respectively, which on a scale of 1-10 is an adjustment of 1% and 2% of their current overall score. Not a statistically significant change at all, and therefore we can conclude on their own merits the ratings for the first 2 episodes to be representative of the overall audience.
Now when we look at episode 3, there is a deviation of 1.3, which results in an adjustment of 13% of the episodes score, which would be a significant change, and therefore we can conclude there were outliers in the 3rd episodes ratings and removing those outliers has given us an adjusted score of 4.7 to reflect the general audience.
The same can be said for the overall shows ratings. And on a personal note, I've always hated that on IMDB you can rate an
ENTIRE SHOWafter the first episode airs before the show is even close to finishing. So honestly I'd prefer to throw out the overall shows rating no matter how positive or negative it is simply due to this and only measure each individual episode by themselves.
It should also be stated, that the total number of votes that the show gets is weighted on it's own. Meaning, it's not an average of each individual episodes ratings. And when you look at the total number of votes for the Acolyte as a whole, it shows a total number of 52,000 votes.
Where when you compare the total number of votes for episodes 1, 2, and 3, you see a total number of 15,000, 13,000, and 14,000 respectively.
Given the fact that the total volume of votes for each episode has stayed relatively close, and the average number of votes for each episode (14,000) is only 27% of the total number of overall show ratings votes for the Acolyte, it bears more credence that the overal rating of The Acolyte can be discarded and only look at each episode individually.
So now.....
You might be saying,
"Well, why did you remove all the 10s?" The answer is, because if we are removing statistical outliers, then that calls to remove the extreme scores on each end. But for those that are curious, I also did the math to show the overall score with all the 10s included for each episode
and only removing all of the scores of 1....please see below....
Episode 1: Current Rating:
5.5 Rating with 10s and 1s removed:
5.6 Rating with only 1s removed:
6.2Episode 2:Current Rating:
5.3Rating with 10s and 1s removed:
5.5Rating with only 1s removed:
6.1 Episode 3:Current Rating:
3.4Rating with 10s and 1s removed:
4.7Rating with only 1s removed:
5.4Now...remember what I said about Episodes 1 and 2 showing no significant statical change after removing the 1's and 10's. I still hold true to those scores being correct. However, I'm doing this to now show the highest the scores could possibly be for each episode with only removing the largest % of score for each episode.....and for each that was the scores of 1.
Now....let's compare these scores to the other episodes that have aired for each Star Wars show to date. I will post the
lowest rated episode for each individual season for each Star Wars show to compare.Mandalorian S1 Lowest Rated Episode name & #:
The Gunslinger, episode 5 Score:
7.5Number of votes:
26,000Mandalorian S2Lowest Rated Episode name & #:
The Passenger, episode 2 Score:
7.8Number of votes:
25,000Mandalorian S3Lowest Rated Episode name & #:
Guns for Hire, episode 6 Score:
6.4 Number of votes:
21,000Book of Boba FettLowest Rated Episode name & #:
The Streets of Mos Espa, episode 3 Score:
6.4Number of votes:
19,000Andor S1Lowest Rated Episode name & #:
That Would Be Me, episode 2 Score:
7.3Number of votes:
14,000KenobiLowest Rated Episode name & #:
Part IV, episode 4 Score:
6.4Number of votes:
21,000AhsokaLowest Rated Episode name & #:
Part 3: Time to Fly, episode 3 Score:
7.3Number of votes:
15,000This means, that the worst rated episodes of all the other Star Wars show's seasons still rate higher than each individual epsiode of The Acolyte so far
even with removing just the scores of "1" for each episode to make them higher. That is not good.
Now me personally....I rather liked the first 2 episodes of The Acolyte. I went in expecting something awful and what I got I thought was relatively decent....then episode 3 happened and it went down the crapper.
I'll still finish the show just because I don't watch much TV so it's not a big time waster for me.
But the conclusion to draw from these ratings are this:
With removing all statistical outliers, each individual episode of the Acolyte still has a lower rating than the worst rated episode of every other Star Wars show that's been made to date.[/sp]
Edit: well crap....can do all that and I can't spoiler tag the post so those who want to ignore it can ignore it...well I tried...
