1. Body Counts: Action vs. Horror Aaron Locke

2. Why? Often, horror movies get a bad wrap for being too violent. In reality, it is action movies that actually have much higher death tolls. Due to an extensive movie collection, I decided to take this on.

3. How do you count bodies? What to count: –A dead body –A mortal hit –Someone dies on screen –A scene shown and then at the last second, cuts away. What not to count: –Unspecified piles or strewn bodies UNLESS they are clear and countable –Animals –Implied kills

4. Data Table Movie TitleGenre# of DeathsRunning Time (minutes) House on Haunted Hill Horror3093 My Bloody Valentine (2009) Horror24101 Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Horror491 The Omen (2006)Horror8110 Grindhouse: Death Proof Horror895 UnderworldAction58121 King KongAction23187 TroyAction572163 The Dark KnightAction36152 Pearl HarborAction153183

5. Data Table (cont.) Movie TitleGenre# of DeathsRunning Time Silence of the Lambs Horror8118 Friday the 13 th (2009) Horror1497 Sweeney ToddHorror12116 Snakes on a Plane (2006) Action31105 CloverfieldAction2785

6. Histogram Red indicates an action movie. Blue indicates a horror movie.

7. Action Movie Histogram

8. Horror Movie Histogram

9. Stem & Leaf StemLeaf 04 8 8 8 12 4 23 4 7 30 1 6 40 58 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 153 160 170... 573

10. Circle Graph

11. Dot Plot 020406080100120140160 Blue Dots represent deaths in Horror Movies Red Dots represent deaths in Action Movies **the data point from Troy was removed Deaths Number of Movies

12. Box Plot

13. Group Data Chart Class BoundariesFrequencyRelative Frequency MidpointCumulative Frequency 1-9913.86649.513 100-1991.066149.514 200-29900.0249.514 300-39900.0349.514 400-49900.0449.514 500-5991.066549.515

14. Measures of Center FOR ALL DATA Mode:8 Median: 24 Mean:67.2 FOR HORROR MOVIES Mode:8 Median:10 Mean:13.5 FOR ACTION MOVIES Mode:None Median:29 Mean:150 1Q: 8 3Q:36 Max:573 Min:4 Range: 569

15. Dispersion Range: 568 Standard Deviation: 144.36 Outlier Analysis –IQR = 28 –Fences = -34 and 78 –According to my outlier analysis, two points [153, 572] are outliers.

16. Cheb/Empirical Rule The graphs show that the data does not quite follow the rule: –75% is within 2 deviations –89% is within 3 standard

17. Z-Scores 1.4-.437 2.8-.410 3.8-.410 4.8-.410 5.12-.382 6.14-.368 7.23-.306 8.24-.299 9.27-.278 10.30-.257 11.31-.250 12.36-.216 13.58-.063 14.153.594 15.5723.496

18. Distribution Throughout this project, the graphs clearly demonstrated a higher amount of deaths/body count in movies classified as “action”. Movies categorized as horror had significantly less deaths. The data is right-skewed.

19. To Conclude... Horror movies do, in fact, have less deaths than action movies. Despite this truth being shown throughout the data, is doesn’t prove that horror movies are less violent. Yes, there are less deaths in horror movies, but they are much different.