clipped from: www.livescience.com By Tuan C. Nguyen, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 30 August 2007 11:23 am ET
It doesn't take years of film appreciation classes to recognize a good movie, new research suggests.
Scientists who have attempted to determine if people had "good taste" in forms of cultural entertainment, such as movies, found that the judgments of experts —the standard bearers for good taste—usually didn't mesh with what was popular with the masses.