Algorithm can predict actors’ most productive year – or if they peaked
Researchers say best acting years tend to be preceded by uptick in number of credits
Macaulay Culkin peaked young, Jane Lynch hit the big time in her late 40s and Matthew McConaughey’s mid-career resurgence is the stuff of legend.
Now researchers say they have developed an algorithm that predicts with 85% accuracy whether an actor is yet to have their most productive year, or whether they have already peaked.