Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s
The Shipping News
Two parallel scores from 137 z-qualifying reviewers and 142 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 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 · 7,847 peers in Films · 2000s
| Mean reviewer z-score | -0.050 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 6.66 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 6.77 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | -0.191 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 137 / 142 |
Summary
After his unfaithful wife dies, a meek, struggling newspaperman relocates with his young daughter and his aunt to his ancestral home in coastal Newfoundland. There he takes a job covering the shipping news for the local paper and slowly rebuilds his confidence, his sense of family, and the possibility of new love amid the harsh weather and old secrets of the town.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
137 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = -0.050. DB2 raw mean = 6.77.
90% CI-floor = -0.191. Thin samples penalized.
Global 45.6 / cohort 50.6. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
