&gt; the general reliance on RT score for any movie<p>The reliance of RT score for what? What are people routinely extrapolating from the RT score that you think is not valid?<p>Extrapolating budget from the RT score is definitely invalid: you&#x27;ve shown that. But who does that?<p>People might go the other way: extrapolate quality from a big budget (it must be good, it&#x27;s a big blockbuster), but as you say, that correlation <i>is</i> valid (though noisy).<p>So not quite sure what you&#x27;re standing by, sorry. I don&#x27;t want to sound rude and argumentative. I&#x27;m not trying to be a jerk, I&#x27;m very happy to concede your analysis is applicable where it is, I just genuinely don&#x27;t understand what you&#x27;re referring to here.