Film · 1973 · Films · 1970s
The Long Goodbye
Two parallel scores from 201 z-qualifying reviewers and 209 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 | +0.213 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.85 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.87 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.097 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 201 / 209 |
Summary
Private eye Philip Marlowe gives his friend Terry Lennox a late-night ride to Tijuana, only to find himself hounded by cops who say Lennox murdered his wife before killing himself in Mexico. Refusing to buy the official story, Marlowe drifts through 1970s Los Angeles tangling with a violent gangster and a troubled alcoholic novelist as he tries to figure out what really happened to his friend.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
201 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.213. DB2 raw mean = 6.87.
90% CI-floor = +0.097. Thin samples penalized.
Global 68 / cohort 60.2. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1970s
