Film · 1959 · Films · 1950s
Imitation of Life
Two parallel scores from 137 z-qualifying reviewers and 140 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 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 · 561 peers in Films · 1950s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.387 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.69 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.74 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.246 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 137 / 140 |
Summary
An ambitious aspiring actress befriends a Black widow and her light-skinned daughter, and the two single mothers raise their children together as the actress's career takes off. Over the years, the daughter's painful attempts to pass for white and reject her mother drive the film's parallel story of maternal sacrifice and heartbreak.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
137 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.387. DB2 raw mean = 7.74.
90% CI-floor = +0.246. Thin samples penalized.
Global 81.1 / cohort 69.1. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1950s
