Scaling the Critics: Uncovering the Latent Dimensions of Movie Criticism With an Item Response Approach

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Peress, Michael; Spirling, Arthur
• 署名单位: University of Rochester; Harvard University; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0162-1459
• DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08445
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 71-83
• 关键词: trait model

摘要

We study the critical opinions of expert movie reviewers as an item response problem Building on earlier unfolding models, we develop a framework that models an individual's decision to approve of disapprove of an item Using this approach we are able to recover the locations of movies and ideal points of critics in the same multidimensional space We demonstrate that a three-dimensional model captures much of the variation in critical opinions The first dimension signifies movie quality while the other two connote the nature and subject matter of the films We then demonstrate that the dimensions uncovered from our utility threshold model are statistically significant predictors of a movie's success, and are particularly useful in predicting the success of independent films