Step1: 听单词讲解音频并跟读，熟悉它们的发音和意思
adjust for inflation
box office
address that problem
spoof
algorithm
Step2: 听音频，用简洁的文字回答下面的题目
1.Why the box office may not be the best measure of a movie’s cultural influence?
2. How is a movie’s cultural influence is measured by data?
3. What are the limitations of the algorithm?
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This is Scientific Americans, 62nd Science.
I'm Christopher and Taglata.
If you go by ticket sales, the most popular film of all time is gone with the wind.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
That is adjusting for inflation, by the way, but a movie's take at the box office is influenced by ad budgets, distribution, reviews.
So box office may not be the best measure of a movie's cultural influence.
To address that question, researchers gave movies the big data treatment.
By analyzing the complex network of connections among 47,000 movies on the internet movie database, IMDb.
The popular movie site tracks every time a film has been referenced or spoofed, featured or remade, all factors that indicate a movie's influence on subsequent films.
And by analyzing those connections with a handful of algorithms, including Google's page rank algorithm, the data scientist came up with a new number one.
