Film · 1961 · Films · 1960s
West Side Story
Two parallel scores from 390 z-qualifying reviewers and 407 raw-average reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1960s (1,929 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 · 1,929 peers in Films · 1960s
| Mean reviewer z-score | +0.296 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 7.65 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 7.74 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.213 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 390 / 407 |
Summary
In 1950s New York City, tensions escalate between two rival street gangs: the white working-class Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Amid the turf war, Tony, a former Jet, falls in love at first sight with Maria, the sister of the Sharks' leader Bernardo. Their forbidden romance unfolds against a backdrop of prejudice and gang violence, told through song and dance.
Pipeline applied to this title
The math, in this order
390 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.296. DB2 raw mean = 7.74.
90% CI-floor = +0.213. Thin samples penalized.
Global 74.7 / cohort 67. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
