Film · 1976 · Films · 1970s
Taxi Driver
Two parallel scores from 1,207 z-qualifying reviewers and 1,331 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 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 · 2,406 peers in Films · 1970s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.455 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.10 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.24 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.407 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 1,207 / 1,331 |
Summary
Travis Bickle, an insomniac Vietnam veteran working the night shift as a New York City cab driver, grows increasingly disgusted by the squalor and corruption he sees around him. After a failed connection with a campaign worker, he fixates on rescuing a young teenage prostitute from her pimp, arming himself and spiraling toward a violent confrontation.
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The math, in this order
1,207 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.455. DB2 raw mean = 8.24.
90% CI-floor = +0.407. Thin samples penalized.
Global 85.3 / cohort 81.4. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
