Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3156395-20130412022554/@comment-1895174-20130515161226

What's the standard deviation though? I don't know, I manually calculated the average, which is roughly 50%. I didn't say you should trust the inflation adjusted gross. Adjusting for inflation provides an somewhat interesting insight, but it's not really necessary. Which is why it's not worth doing. Well, technically no. But your natural gross-citing state is domestic. My problem is with saying "Movie grossed $money", where the money is domestic. Because that's just wrong. I don't so much have a problem with you saying "Movie had a domestic gross of $money". International grosses are less versatile, but more real. Like I said, take it up with Box Office Mojo. You have this odd belief that it's just my choice to cite box office grosses in domestic numbers, but it's the industry standard. International grosses are less versatile and involve far too many variables to make them a useful statistic to base a comparison off of. Box Office Mojo isn't the world. Neither is America. They are the most well-respected organization when it comes to calculating box office grosses. So in this case, yes, Box Office Mojo is the world.