A-B QUALITY FOR NC 16

The quality rankings for the films screened at NC 16 in San Francisco (ongoing through Sunday, February 4) can, like so many things these days, be shown in graphic form. Are A's better than B's? Will Manny Farber and his followers be outraged?

It's WAY too small a sample size to be taken seriously, but here goes:

For these films (12 of each, a comparison afforded by the structure of NC 16), A's outpoint B's by 7 points (84.7 to 77.6). The graph confirms this via its distribution across quality levels, with each sub-group showing something akin to a bell-curve structure even though we have only 12 films in each sample.

A larger sample from the full NC sample (or from a larger portion of it that can be readily identified using the "A-B" distinction) is possible...we will try to get to that at some point in time.