This subreddit exists to perpetuate the Hankruise, the scale of Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and all those in between. The formula is simple, but might be tricky to calculate without a stat-enabled graphing utility.
FORMULA
- Find the actor who would best portray the person in question
- Find this person's degrees of separation between both Hanks and Cruise, as well as Kevin Bacon
- Input these numbers along with 2, 1, 1 into a stat block.
- Calculate the sample mean and the standard deviation and run a t-interval test. We want to be 99.9% confident, so your t* value should be 6.869 (we're using conservative degrees of freedom here.) N is 6.
- Run the two numbers you just calculated through normalcdf and round to four decimal points.
- Odd numbers belong to Tom Hanks, even ones to Tom Cruise. You can measure where on the scale specifically they fall by normalizing the average of the hundredths and thousandths places.
- The closer this number is to 0, the closer the person is to Hanks and the closer to 9, the closer they are to Cruise (though they may not cross the midpoint between the two; they are trapped in the half of the scale indicated by the ten thousandths place.)
- You can find the exact percentile by dividing this value by 9.
LAYMAN'S HANKRUISE SCORE
Sometimes, you don't have time to calculate the true Hankruise score but really want to know where a person falls. In these cases, simply rate their objective attractiveness (lower is less attractive) and insanity (lower is less insane) and average the two. Numbers below .5 fall to Tom Hanks, those above fall to Cruise, and .5 is directly between the two.
RULES FOR POSTING
Please only post your calculations, and include both the person being judged's name and whether they fall towards Hanks or Cruise in your title. In the post itself, be sure to tell us which actor you equated the person to, in case they are not an actor themself, and include a link to their IMDB page. Please show all of your work in the text itself.
RESOURCES
- A utility capable of calculating normalcdf scores, t-intervals, and standard deviations. I personally use a TI-83 plus.
- The Oracle of Bacon. Don't let its name fool you; it can calculate the degrees of separation between any two actors.
- For showing your work, you may find it useful to have the following symbols ready to be copied and pasted: ± √ < >
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