Film · 1991 · Films · 1990s
The Silence of the Lambs
Two parallel scores from 1,292 z-qualifying reviewers and 1,402 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 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 · 4,082 peers in Films · 1990s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.655 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.61 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.70 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.609 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 1,292 / 1,402 |
Summary
A young FBI trainee, Clarice Starling, is sent to interview the brilliant and cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, hoping his insight will help her track down an active serial killer known as Buffalo Bill. As Lecter trades cryptic clues for personal details about her past, Clarice races to decipher the killer's pattern before his latest captive is murdered.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
1,292 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.655. DB2 raw mean = 8.70.
90% CI-floor = +0.609. Thin samples penalized.
Global 94.3 / cohort 96.2. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1990s
