The Bechdel Test and Movie Profitability
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
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:
## Rows: 1,794
## Columns: 15
## $ year <int> 2013, 2012, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 2013, 20…
## $ imdb <chr> "tt1711425", "tt1343727", "tt2024544", "tt1272878", "tt0…
## $ title <chr> "21 & Over", "Dredd 3D", "12 Years a Slave", "2 Guns", "…
## $ test <chr> "notalk", "ok-disagree", "notalk-disagree", "notalk", "m…
## $ clean_test <ord> notalk, ok, notalk, notalk, men, men, notalk, ok, ok, no…
## $ binary <chr> "FAIL", "PASS", "FAIL", "FAIL", "FAIL", "FAIL", "FAIL", …
## $ budget <int> 13000000, 45000000, 20000000, 61000000, 40000000, 225000…
## $ domgross <dbl> 25682380, 13414714, 53107035, 75612460, 95020213, 383624…
## $ intgross <dbl> 42195766, 40868994, 158607035, 132493015, 95020213, 1458…
## $ code <chr> "2013FAIL", "2012PASS", "2013FAIL", "2013FAIL", "2013FAI…
## $ budget_2013 <int> 13000000, 45658735, 20000000, 61000000, 40000000, 225000…
## $ domgross_2013 <dbl> 25682380, 13611086, 53107035, 75612460, 95020213, 383624…
## $ intgross_2013 <dbl> 42195766, 41467257, 158607035, 132493015, 95020213, 1458…
## $ period_code <int> 1, 1, 1, 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, 1, 1, 1,…Let’s consider the following properties of the data
Mean Return
| clean_test | mean_return |
|---|---|
| dubious | 895.4869 |
| men | 741.3950 |
| nowomen | 655.4692 |
| notalk | 629.2148 |
| ok | 529.1161 |
Median Return
| clean_test | median_return |
|---|---|
| ok | 270.1904 |
| men | 266.3718 |
| notalk | 264.6896 |
| dubious | 259.5882 |
| nowomen | 238.3619 |