Book · Michael Finkel · 2023
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Scored from 12 calibrated reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the book is ranked. Cohort: 2020s books (1,903 books).
Summary
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession is credited to Michael Finkel. It is shelved for adult readers. It is catalogued as a nonfiction history title. Publication year on the record is 2023.
12 reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated figure reads; 26 reviewers with two or more ratings feed the raw-average track. The cohort it is ranked inside is the 2020s, 1,903 books wide.
How the score was built
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 The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession 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 12.
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