Investigating Hollywood Movies In the following exercise, we use data from HollywoodMovies. The dataset includes information on all movies to come out of Hollywood between 2007 and 2013. Do Audience Ratings Differ Based on the Genre of the Movie
The dataset Hollywood Movies includes a quantitative variable on the AudienceScore of the movie as well as a categorical variable classifying each movie by its Genre. The computer output below gives summary statistics for audience ratings based on genre for movies made in 2011, using four of the possible genres.
Variable Genre N Mean StDev Minimum Q1 Median Q3 Maximum
AudienceScore Action 32 58.63 18.39 32.00 44.50 51.00 78.00 93.00
Comedy 27 59.11 15.68 31.00 48.00 58.00 71.00 93.00
Drama 21 72.10 14.55 46.00 59.00 72.00 84.50 91.00
Horror 17 48.65 15.88 25.00 34.00 52.00 60.50 78.00
A) Which genre has the highest mean audience score?
B) Calculate the difference in mean score between comedies and horror movies, and give notation with your answer, using Ic for the mean comedy score and Iy for the mean horror score.
C) In which genre is the lowest score, and what is that score? In which genre is the highest score, and what is that score?