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The IMDb top 50 by sex has 28 overlaps. Males score those movies higher by .2 +- .2 (avg +- stdev). The ratio of male raters to female is 6 +- 1.3. The correlation is .6. It's only .5 if I take logs of ratios. I'm surprised it's that high, since a scatterplot makes it look uncorrelated, except for 2 outliers, Godfather 1 & 2, which are the only movies with a rating of .6 and the only ones with ratios in excess of 8. Also, the first two Star Wars films are the only films with a rating of .4 and they have large ratios. But the two films with the lowest ratios have male excesses of .3, above average (It's a Wonderful Life, Sunset Blvd).

I suppose it is not surprising that old movies have more extreme ratios: there's more choice involved in whether to watch the film. As I indicated before, I'd rather avoid that selection issue.

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There's very very very little difference between them, male and female taste in movies is virtually identical.

The lists for worst films were entirely different. They only agreed about the best films...

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