An Investigation of the Bechdel Test Using Logistic Regression

Introduction Last spring, I took a categorical data analysis course at the University of Kansas as part of the Applied Statistics, Analytics, and Data Science graduate program. For our final project, we were asked to find a data set, form a research question, and conduct a series of analyses to answer that research question. While looking for inspiration for my final project, I found a Bechdel test data set containing the Bechdel test ratings for films released between 1970 and 2013 on the Tidy Tuesday weekly data project which was originally used in a FiveThirtyEight article titled The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women.