The Bechdel Test

The Bechdel Test was devised by Alison Bechdel and poses the folowing questions:

• Does a movie have at least two women?

• Do any of these women talk to one another?

• Do they talk about something other than a man?

The Bechdel Cartoon

https://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2008/sep/bechdel/rule_540-4b147460dfbfb89a5e4f5aad992bf3be3358e7cc-s1400.jpg

Profitability analysis by FiveThirtyEight.com

FiveThirtyEight published an analysis of the correlation between passing the Bechdel test and a movie’s gross worldiwde return: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-dollar-and-cents-case-against-hollywoods-exclusion-of-women/

The dataset contains the following data:

## Observations: 1,794
## Variables: 15
## $ year          <int> 2013, 2012, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, ...
## $ imdb          <chr> "tt1711425", "tt1343727", "tt2024544", "tt127287...
## $ title         <chr> "21 & Over", "Dredd 3D", "12 Years a Slave", "2 ...
## $ test          <chr> "notalk", "ok-disagree", "notalk-disagree", "not...
## $ clean_test    <ord> notalk, ok, notalk, notalk, men, men, notalk, ok...
## $ binary        <chr> "FAIL", "PASS", "FAIL", "FAIL", "FAIL", "FAIL", ...
## $ budget        <int> 13000000, 45000000, 20000000, 61000000, 40000000...
## $ domgross      <dbl> 25682380, 13414714, 53107035, 75612460, 95020213...
## $ intgross      <dbl> 42195766, 40868994, 158607035, 132493015, 950202...
## $ code          <chr> "2013FAIL", "2012PASS", "2013FAIL", "2013FAIL", ...
## $ budget_2013   <int> 13000000, 45658735, 20000000, 61000000, 40000000...
## $ domgross_2013 <dbl> 25682380, 13611086, 53107035, 75612460, 95020213...
## $ intgross_2013 <dbl> 42195766, 41467257, 158607035, 132493015, 950202...
## $ period_code   <int> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ...
## $ decade_code   <int> 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, ...

Let’s consider the following properties of the data