Movie data: We collected data from IMDb.com on 70 movies listed in the top 100 US box office sales of all time. These are the variable descriptions:
Metascore: Score out of 100, based on major critic reviews as provided by Metacritic.com
Total US box office sales: Total box office sales in millions of dollars
Rotten Tomatoes: Score out of 100, based on authors from writing guilds or film critic associations
We used Metascore ratings as an explanatory variable and Rotten Tomato ratings as the response variable in a linear regression. The se value is 11. With US box office sales as the explanatory variable and Rotten Tomato ratings as the response variable in a linear regression, the se value is 22. Using the se value, which is a better predictor of a movie’s Rotten Tomatoes score: Metascore or total US box office sales?
a. Total US box office sales
b. Metascore
