Film · 1969 · Films · 1960s
Midnight Cowboy
Two parallel scores from 373 z-qualifying reviewers and 384 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 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 · 1,929 peers in Films · 1960s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.491 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.17 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.22 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.406 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 373 / 384 |
Summary
A naive Texan named Joe Buck arrives in New York City with dreams of making it as a hustler for wealthy women, but quickly finds himself broke and adrift. He forms an unlikely friendship with Ratso Rizzo, a sickly, small-time con man, and the two struggle to survive together on the margins of the city.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
373 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.491. DB2 raw mean = 8.22.
90% CI-floor = +0.406. Thin samples penalized.
Global 87.4 / cohort 83. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
