Week 10
Hello Everyone! In this week’s blog post, I will be discussing my final conclusions and results from my data collection and data analysis. To represent my data, I compiled all the data into a double bar graph with the first bar showing the data from Scale 1 and the second from Scale 2. The movies have been ordered chronologically by release year on the x-axis to show any trends over time, and the points on the y-axis range from 0 to 5. The graph shows the final scores for each movie. The scores were made by adding up the numbers from the individual scales to get a total score for each scale for each movie. For example, in the 1996 movie Raja Hindustani, there was a total score of 17 for the number of times a toxic behavior occurred in the movie (Scale 1), and a total score of 4 for the number of times a character acknowledged the toxic behavior (Scale 2).
By looking at the final data, there were many key trends which I observed. The first was in the first scale, which showed that there was not a significantly clear trend in the progression of the first scale(which shows the prevalence of the toxic behaviors), as the results varied across the years. In regards to the second scale (characters’ acknowledgment of the toxic behaviors), while the data points are also scattered, there is a noticeable increase in the character acknowledgment of the toxic behaviors from 2016 onwards with the exception of the 2019 movie. This implies that there is a positive trend and improvement toward the characters’ acknowledgment of toxicity and harmful behaviors.
There are possible correlations that can explain the data trends. Concerning the first scale, the data could imply that there exists a higher correlation between the different plots of the movies and the rate of toxic behaviors prevalent as opposed to the years that they have been released. Since the plots of the fourteen movies were not the same, the rate of toxic behaviors could have been affected. Another possible correlation is between the male character personalities and the prevalence of toxic behaviors. The 1996 movie, Raja Hindustani, and the 2019 movie, Kabir Singh, had the highest number of toxic behaviors at 17 and 23 respectively. One similarity amongst the two is the very aggressive and short-tempered male lead which could have correlated with the significant increase in toxicity. These two movies were the only ones that displayed a male lead with these intense characteristics, distinguishing it from the rest of the movies. However, one important thing to note is that the toxic behaviors could have come from either gender or partner in the relationship and this correlation does not imply that the male character is solely responsible for the relationship toxicity.