TV Mini Series · 2022 · TV Mini Series · 2020s
The Dropout
Scored from 166 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 peers).
Summary
This limited series chronicles the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and her blood-testing startup Theranos. It follows her journey from ambitious Stanford dropout to celebrated Silicon Valley billionaire, and traces how her promise of revolutionary medical technology unraveled into one of the biggest fraud scandals in tech history.
The Dropout is a 2022 biography and drama miniseries.
1,093 other miniseries from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 69 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 166 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 168 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Dropout lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Mini Series · 2020s (1,094 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 166.
Cohort: TV Mini Series · 2020s
