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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/12/a-chart-of-bechdel-test-scores.html"> Revolutions</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
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<p>A movie is said to satisfy the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.feministfrequency.com/2009/12/the-bechdel-test-for-women-in-movies/" target="_blank">Bechdel Test</a> if it satisfies the following three criteria:</p>
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<li>The movie has at least two named female characters</li>
<li>… who have a conversation with each other</li>
<li>… about something other than a man</li>
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<p>The website <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bechdeltest.com/" target="_blank">BechdelTest.com</a> scores movies accordingly, granting one point for each of the criteria above for a maximum of three points. The recent <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bechdeltest.com/view/7241/wonder_woman/" target="_blank">Wonder Woman</a> movie scores the full three points (Diana and her mother discuss war, for example), while <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bechdeltest.com/view/7748/dunkirk/" target="_blank">Dunkirk</a>, which features no named female characters, gets zero. (It was still a great film, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indiewire.com/2017/07/films-pass-bechdel-test-dunkirk-their-finest-1201857842/" target="_blank">however</a>.)</p>
<p>The website also offers an <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bechdeltest.com/api/v1/doc" target="_blank">API</a>, which enabled data and analytics director Austin Wehrwein to create this time series <a rel="nofollow" href="https://austinwehrwein.com/post/bechdel/" target="_blank">chart of Bechdel scores for movies</a> listed on BechdelTest.com:</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://austinwehrwein.com/post/bechdel/" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Bechdel2-1" title="Bechdel2-1" src="http://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01b7c93c6d32970b-800wi"></a></p>
<p>This chart only includes ratings for that subset of movies listed on Bechdeltest.com, so it's not clear whether this is representative of movies as a whole. Austin suggests combining these data with the broader data from IDMB, so maybe someone wants to give that a try. Austin's R code for generating the above chart and several others is available at the link below, so click through for the full analysis.</p>
<p>Austin Wehrwein: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://austinwehrwein.com/post/bechdel/" target="_blank">A quick look at Bechdel test data (&amp; an awtools update)</a> (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/dataandme/status/940669090234011649" target="_blank">via</a> Mara Averick)</p>
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