Although there seems to have been a slight dip/stagnation in the 2000s and 2010s, and the text concludes with
In conclusion, our intuition was wrong. There is no trend in the movies runtime. The differences are too small to be noticed. We can say that for the last 60 years movies on average have the same length. No matter what criteria we take into account, the result is the same.
Interesting. The graph seems to fit Viliam’s intuition rather well. It is a noisy dataset (not to mention that “movie” is probably a poorly defined item so might have both apples and oranges here) so I’m not quite sure one can easily make the claim of increasing or constant very easily.
I looks like movies have been getting longer:
Although there seems to have been a slight dip/stagnation in the 2000s and 2010s, and the text concludes with
Interesting. The graph seems to fit Viliam’s intuition rather well. It is a noisy dataset (not to mention that “movie” is probably a poorly defined item so might have both apples and oranges here) so I’m not quite sure one can easily make the claim of increasing or constant very easily.