Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s
The Jerk
Two parallel scores from 134 z-qualifying reviewers and 136 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 | +0.304 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.32 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.36 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.162 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 134 / 136 |
Summary
Navin R. Johnson, a naive white man raised by a poor Black sharecropping family in Mississippi, sets out to find his place in the world. He stumbles into an unlikely fortune after inventing a small fix for eyeglasses, and along the way falls in love with a cosmetologist named Marie while navigating fame, wealth, and his own cluelessness.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
134 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.304. DB2 raw mean = 7.36.
90% CI-floor = +0.162. Thin samples penalized.
Global 75.2 / cohort 69. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
