Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s
The Beast of Yucca Flats
Two parallel scores from 142 z-qualifying reviewers and 144 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 | -1.524 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 2.25 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 2.23 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -1.662 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 142 / 144 |
Summary
A defecting Soviet scientist is chased into the Nevada desert near a nuclear test site, where radiation from a blast transforms him into a hulking, mute killer. As the disfigured brute stalks the Yucca Flats wasteland and attacks passersby, local lawmen mount a pursuit to stop him.
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The math, in this order
142 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = -1.524. DB2 raw mean = 2.23.
90% CI-floor = -1.662. Thin samples penalized.
Global 0.2 / cohort 0.3. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
