TV Series · 1997 · TV Series · 1990s
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Two parallel scores from 311 z-qualifying reviewers and 344 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: TV Series · 1990s (630 peers).
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 title sits
Z-normalized percentile · 630 peers in TV Series · 1990s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.683 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.79 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.87 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.590 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 311 / 344 |
Summary
A California high school student learns she is the Slayer, the latest in a line of young women chosen to battle vampires and other supernatural forces. Alongside a small circle of friends and her Watcher mentor, Buffy Summers juggles homework, dating, and apocalyptic threats while living atop a Hellmouth in the town of Sunnydale.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
311 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.683. DB2 raw mean = 8.87.
90% CI-floor = +0.590. Thin samples penalized.
Global 95.2 / cohort 80.3. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: TV Series · 1990s
