By that standard — bias means you can’t do reliable counting — he wouldn’t trust GLAAD counting gay characters, the NAACP counting minority characters, and health czars who comb entertainment for smoking scenes. They all have agendas, too.

Sure, the PTC is motivated to inflate the numbers, but so is every special interest group on every subject and offhand, I can’t think of anyone else who would have easy access to this kind of data.

Recently this site published a ranking of “worst actors” based on a website’s list of “worst films” and Defamer linked to someone’s ranking of “critically-acclaimed” actors based on another website’s database of reviews. Both sets of numbers and their mathematic formulas were clearly skewed, but once you wrap your head around the idea that their source data was flawed, you just had to accept the analysis for what it was.