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If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone cover
global pct
47.0

Book

If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone

Two parallel scores from 4 calibrated reviewers and 5 raw-average reviewers.

47.0%
Z · Global
47.0%
Z · Cohort
48.3%
Raw · Global
48.3%
Raw · Cohort
Two scores · one item
Z-normalized · global
47.0
Z-normalized · cohortpublication decade
47.0
Raw average · global
48.3
Raw average · cohortpublication decade
48.3

Z-normalized corrects for reviewer bias (every reviewer re-centered onto their personal scale). Raw average uses simple mean across the broader pool including stddev=0 reviewers.

Where this book sits

0255075100

Z-normalized percentile · 5,285 ranked books

Mean reviewer z-score+0.103
Calibrated raw-mean rating4.75 /5
Broad raw-mean rating4.80 /5
90% CI-floor (z)-0.720
Reviewers (calibrated / broad)4 / 5

Summary

If You Make a Call on a Banana Phone sits at the 47th z-normalized percentile across 5,285ranked books. The z-percentile differs from a raw star average because Rankquant subtracts each reviewer's personal baseline before aggregating — so a reader who rates everything 5 stars carries less weight than one who rates discerningly. Raw-average percentile is 48; the gap between the two measures how much bias-correction changes this title's standing. How percentiles are computed.

Pipeline applied to this title

The math, in this order

01
Z-score per reviewer

4 reviewers with rating variance re-centered onto a personal z-scale.

02
Aggregate

Mean z = +0.103. Broad raw mean = 4.80/5.

03
CI-floor

90% CI-floor = -0.720. Thin samples penalized.

04
ECDF percentile

Global 47. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.

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