Oscar Winners

Oscar Winners#

The first Oscar awards for best actor and best actress were given out in 1929. The histograms below show the age distribution for all of the best actor and best actress winners from 1929 to 2018. Summary statistics for these distributions are also provided. Compare the distributions of ages of best actor and actress winners.

Part 1#

Answer Section#

Select all that apply

  • The best act actress’ seem to have a median age of approximately 40 while the best actors seem to have a median age of about 50.0

  • Both histograms are right skewed

  • The difference in the peeks of these 2 graphs could suggest best actor winners are generally older than best actress winners

  • There is not enough information to compare the 2 distributions in any meaningful way

  • The similarly in the peeks of these 2 graphs suggest best actor winners are generally about the same age as best actress winners

  • The best act actress’ seem to have a median age of approximately 60 while the best actors seem to have a median age of about 30.0

Attribution#

Problem is from the OpenIntro Statistics textbook, licensed under the CC-BY 4.0 license.
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