Film · 1985 · Films · 1980s
Runaway Train
Two parallel scores from 194 z-qualifying reviewers and 200 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 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 · 3,141 peers in Films · 1980s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.567 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.84 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.86 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.449 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 194 / 200 |
Summary
Two convicts escape from a brutal Alaskan prison and stow away on a freight train, only to discover that the engineer has died and the train is hurtling driverless through the frozen wilderness. As railroad dispatchers scramble to stop the runaway before disaster, the fugitives and a railway worker trapped aboard must confront each other and their own desperate circumstances.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
194 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.567. DB2 raw mean = 7.86.
90% CI-floor = +0.449. Thin samples penalized.
Global 91.1 / cohort 90.9. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
