Collection average

7.26

over 1,677 rated films: 1,676 from IMDb, 1 from TMDB

Picked average

7.54

weighted by how often each is picked, over 2,827 rated pick rows: 2,827 from IMDb, 0 from TMDB

Gap

+0.28

guests land above the shelf average: 2,827 rated pick rows against 1,677 rated films, two populations and two mixes

Measured viewing

10,263h+

a floor over all 403 visits: 71 reached something with no runtime on record

Does a higher rating mean more picks

Each band's mean is over the films in it, and the last column says how many of those ratings are IMDb's and how many fell back to TMDB.

A guest mean is over that guest's own rated pick rows, at least 5 of them, and the last column says which source each of those ratings came from.

IMDb is the primary rating, TMDB the fallback for whatever it lacks: never averaged together for the same film, one source per film, named in rating_source. IMDb needs at least 100 votes and TMDB at least 10, over the 1677 collection films that carry a rating from either: 1676 from IMDb and 1 falling back to TMDB. The picked mean is taken over pick rows rather than films, a different population and a different mix: 2827 from IMDb and 0 falling back to TMDB over 2827 rated pick rows. Box sets are excluded: they have no rating of their own.

Hours on the shelf

What it would take to watch everything a guest reached for, box sets included. Runtimes are TMDB's, so they describe TMDB's cut rather than Criterion's edition. Box sets count as the films inside them. A television series' own total runtime is not tracked (TMDB gives one representative episode length, not a total, and episodes are not uniform), so a visit that reaches one is excluded from ranking rather than published with a guessed total. A visit is ranked only when at least 80% of what it reached has a runtime, it reached at least 4 films, and it did not reach a series, which excludes 5 of 403. The hours counted across the whole run are a floor rather than a total: they cover all 403 visits, but only the runtimes on record, and 71 visits reached something without one.

TMDB coverage for runtimes: 1684 of 1718 films (98%). A match is not a runtime, so this counts the films that have one, not the 1686 that matched. 398 of 403 visits are ranked; 5 are left out, because 3 have runtimes for too little of what they reached, 2 chose too few films to compare, and 0 reached a television series, whose own total runtime TMDB does not give.