Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-3317214-20130520225833

Just not statistically so. At least not in a good way. I've already been over countless times why it's better to base a comparison off one country's statistic. Yes, statistically so. Both domestic and international statistics make up 50% of the complete gross, so both are equally significant. No matter how much better it is for you to use only one of those halves. No matter how remarkable one half is, because it comes from one country. Both halves are statistically, equally siginificant. Irrefutable.

Most if not all countries track their own domestic numbers, particularly when they have their own national film industry. You have this odd assumption that something has to "be the world" in order to set a worldwide standard, which is a wrong on several accounts. The American film industry dominates the global film industry, making the American standards the worldwide standards by default. Ugh. That's the point. Yes, countries care how much films make in their own country. That's the first reason as to why domestic values even exist.

And no, I don't assume something has to be the world to be a worldwide standard. I believe that something has to be used in at least more than one country to be a worldwide standard.

America does have a standard of caring about US grosses. But as you've already agreed, no other country does. Therefore it is a national standard, not an international standard, and certainly not a worldwide standard.

They don't, but other countries don't produce American films. And the only individual country the studios care about how much a film grosses is the United States. Like I said, more franchises have been killed by a bad domestic release than save by a good international one. Again, that's the point. We're not talking as producers here, are we? We're talking about the statistics that the general public wants to know. And over 95% of the public don't want to know the domestic values.

There's no indication the numbers are domestic because they don't have to tell anyone who understands how to read the site. And since the indices are all there because they compare films' grosses, it is best to go off one country's. That's not how tables work. Tables tell you what the values are. Or, at least, they're supposed to. In no way is it right for them to use domestic values without telling me that they're domestic.

You assumed an international statistic I provided was a domestic one, that was incorrect. Yes.

You assumed neither Box Office Mojo nor myself offered international statistics, that was incorrect. Well, no I didn't. I never said anything like that. So what's worse, is that you assumed that I assumed that.

You assumed Box Office Mojo didn't make international statistics more available because they don't care to do so, that was incorrect. I assumed that Box Office Mojo didn't make international statistics more available. That much is correct. There was no because.

You assumed 48% wasn't roughly 50%, that was incorrect. No. I believed your average, but I assumed it to have a very large standard deviation. You told me it didn't, and I can't be bothered to do the maths to take it any further.

You assumed something has to "be the world" in order to set a worldwide standard, that was incorrect. No, again, you're assuming that I'm assuming things. Just settle down. I assumed that something should be used in at least more than one country for it to be a worldwide standard. And that's correct.

You assumed a statistic bogged down with countless variables is better to base a comparison off of than one with significantly fewer variables, that was incorrect. Yeah, I did assume it, but only because the statistic I wanted to know is the actual complete gross. Although, actually, I don't think I said that it was better to base a comparison off of.

So, anyway, it appears that you've been assuming a lot of things as well. Maybe next time, after someone apologises to you, you'll think about your own argument, before you make a hypocritical statement about someone else's.