Great, now my daughter is crying

I said something similar and also got downvoted, but I have a lot more faith in the 3 years of statistics I did at uni than the Reddit hive-mind.

>You seem to be assuming that the "audience" is one homogenous entity

Yes, because these are averages. Some audience members prefer one or the other, some people have no allegiance, their scores are combined and averaged which has the effect of balancing out these individual preferences.

Would you agree that:

1.Audiences give DC films an average score of around 75%

2. Critics give DC films an average score of around 55%

3. Both audiences and critics give MCU films an average of around 85%

4. On AVERAGE, audiences show a small (10%) preference for MCU films and critics show a larger (30%) preference for MCU films.

For your theory to be correct, DC fans would have to be much more likely to inflate DC films' scores, but MCU fans would not do that. I don't understand what you see in the data that supports this theory.

But it looks like audiences generally like both.

Critic's are the ones who seem to show a clear preference.

I don't understand what in this data supports anything you are saying.

Looks like the critics have a clear favorite, even though that sentiment isn't felt by the audience anywhere near as strongly.