King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

We compare the reviewers of this book against every other book those same people reviewed. Each rating is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline, so a reader who gives everything five stars is measured against their own five-star habit rather than against a stranger's. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.

Global percentile

Where King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation lands against every book we rank.

In-cohort percentile

The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — books published in the same decade, so a Victorian novel is judged against Victorian novels rather than against this year's releases. Ranked against 2020s books (1,903 books).

AI-adjusted percentile

The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each book keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 4.