Film · 1962 · Films · 1960s
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Two parallel scores from 264 z-qualifying reviewers and 269 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 | +0.619 |
|---|---|
| DB1 raw-mean rating | 8.11 /10 |
| DB2 raw-mean rating | 8.14 /10 |
| 90% CI-floor (z) | +0.517 |
| Reviewers (DB1 / DB2) | 264 / 269 |
Summary
Two aging sisters, former child star Baby Jane Hudson and her wheelchair-bound former-actress sister Blanche, live together in a decaying Hollywood mansion. As Jane's mental state deteriorates and her jealousy of Blanche's later film success festers, she begins tormenting her helpless sister in increasingly cruel ways, building toward a shocking revelation about their shared past.
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The math, in this order
264 stddev>0 reviewers re-centered onto personal z-scale.
Mean z = +0.619. DB2 raw mean = 8.14.
90% CI-floor = +0.517. Thin samples penalized.
Global 93.2 / cohort 91.2. Z-track and raw-track ranked separately.
Cohort: Films · 1960s
