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Who rated Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker higher, men or women?

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If you go to IMDb.com you’ll see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker has a rating of 6.9/10. And at Rottentomatoes.com #RoS gets a 86% from users. (And 53% from critics, but who cares what critics think?)

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That’s nice to know, but user polls like that have always bothered me, because  I don’t know who’s voting. The assumption is that if enough people vote, then it really doesn’t matter. But is that a good assumption? Let’s test it and find out.

In the RunPee app we have a user’s poll — we call it the Peeple’s Poll — that breaks down user voting more precisely by age and gender. We also ask users to submit their expectation vote before seeing the movie to compare with their after-movie vote, to see how a movie performs based on expectations.

Lets see what the Peeple’s Poll numbers have to say about Rise of Skywalker.

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Who rated Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker higher, men or women?

Raw data of results by gender

expectation
aftermovie
difference
men
75.9 81.5 +5.6
women
76.8 83.6 +6.8
COMbined
76.1 82.1 +6.0

Women have a higher expectation vote than men. And, their after-movie vote is also higher — by a wider margin. The last remnants of the Old Stereotype that Star Wars is for nerdy boys has been swept away.

An after-movie rating in the low 80% range is respectable. For context, an 82.1 score would put Rise Of Skywalker as the 28th best movie of 2019 — just slightly ahead of Joker.

Read the 2019 Peeple’s Poll Movies – Year in Review here.

Turns out men and women don’t rate movies equally. If we look at all votes for all movies we can see there is a slight, but noticeable, difference in how men and women rate movies.

Peeple’s Poll voting by gender for ALL MOVIES

expectation
aftermovie
difference
men
75.4 80.1 +4.7
women
76.4 82.6 +6.2
Women – men
+1.0 +1.5

Remember, the numbers above are for all movies. The expectation vote between men and women differ by 1.0 points, while the after-movie vote differs by 1.5 points. Not huge, but I think it’s interesting that women generally are happier with a movie than men.

Note: this is with over 80,000 total votes submitted.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker departure from average.

expectation

#RoS – overall avg.

after-movie

#RoS – overall avg.

men
75.9 – 75.4 = +0.5 81.5 – 80.1 = +1.4
women
76.8 – 76.4 = +0.4 83.6 – 82.6 = +1.0

Here we can see the departure from average is a little greater for men than women, but again, women still rate the movie higher.

However, in a deeper context, the trend is for women to have an expectation rating that is 1 point higher than men, and in the case of #RoS it’s 0.9.

Let’s call that a wash.

On the other hand, the trend, when considering all movies, is for women to have an after-movie rating that’s 1.5 points higher than men. In the case of #RoS, men are +1.4 and women are +1.0. Women’s after-movie rating is higher, but not by the margin we would expect according to average.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker expectation by age/genderInfographic, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, rating by men and women before movie expectation

You can see that, in general, women had slightly higher expectations across all age groups, except for the 20-29 range. But more interestingly, I think, the 20-29 age range was lower for both genders by wide margins. If you have some reasoning for, that I’d love to hear it in the comments. Notice also that, among women, those under 20 had the highest expectations, while those 20-29 had the lowest expectations. A stark contrast for two adjacent age groups. But, that’s life.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker after-movie by age/gender

Infographic, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, rating by men and women after movie rating

This is where it gets really interesting. What’s up with women under 20? We saw from the expectation chart that women under 20 had the highest expectation, but it’s crazy how much that groups after-movie rating stands out. My guess is that young women identify with the protagonist Rey and young men identify with Kylo Ren. I don’t want to get into anything spoilery, so I’ll leave it at that. But if you’ve seen the movie you can see how the outcome of the characters could have a strong influence on the weak minded young. 🙂

FAQ – Peeple’s Poll

Want to get punched in the nose? Go tell a teenage girl that #RoS sucked. Note: of the 2,800+ votes for #RoS women under 20 has the least number of votes at just 19. I’ll check back in a few days and update to see there are any changes.

The other thing I notice from the after-movie chart is, among men, those in the 30-39 range had the lowest rating for the movie of any group. Why? Let’s see… A man of about 35 would have been around 15 when Phantom Menace came out. Does the scar of Jar-Jar still haunt them? You tell me.

One other statistical result is worth mentioning, and that’s the percentage of votes by women vs men for all movies and for #RoS.

Percent of voters by gender

# of votes all movies
# of votes Rise of Skywalker
women
27,756 810
men
56,031 1,945
women/men %
49.5% 41.6%

You can see that overall women don’t submit votes in the Peeple’s Poll as frequently as men. (2 votes by men for every 1 vote by a woman.) However, I don’t have any overall gender demographics for RunPee app users. I can only go by users who submit votes in the Peeple’s Poll and submit their gender.

For Rise of Skywalker women account for 41.6% of the votes, down 7.9% from the overall trend. My interpretation is that, while women rate #RoS higher, men account for a disportionate percentage of the audience. At least among RunPee app users.

We’re just getting started here. Tell me, what other sorts of statistical breakdowns would you like to see in the future?

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Comments

5 responses to “Who rated Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker higher, men or women?”

  1. This is a lot of work. Thank you.Don’t women make better pilots too?

  2. I’ve heard that too. Not that one has anything to do with the other. 🙂

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    Jason Owen

    Actually I have a unique look into that 20 year old demographic! I grew up with the original Star Wars and as a kid, one of the first movies I remember seeing in the theater was Return of the Jedi! My nephew, who loves Star Wars and everything that has come out Star Wars related since during his life. He and I share a birth month (December) and pretty much anytime one of these movies came out, he and I would go see it together. Finally, someone in my family that likes Star Wars!!!! Now, the difference between us, besides 20 some odd years, is that I absolutely enjoyed the original Star Wars (aka Canon) and that’s about it. My nephew has had ALL of the tv and movies to watch (From the original trilogy, prequel trilogy, Clone Wars, etc) so he knows more about everything else that had been written into the Star Wars universe than I would. He said that this new trilogy did not build or add on to the story but simply take bits and pieces from other people’s stories and use them in this new trilogy and oddly enough, even though he knew all of the other stories (clone wars series, etc) and I did not care, we BOTH had the same opinion that the new series did not ADD anything to the story of Star Wars! And perhaps other 20 year olds felt the same, that they wanted to see the story build and not just a similar story continue. I know I didn’t care for it! Derivative is the word I used to describe the new trilogy! But there is ‘a new hope’ for better Star Wars stories and it’s name is The Mandolorian!!!!

  4. Hey Jason. That’s a really good analysis. I agree, the new trilogy is very derivative. To use a math analogy: RoS is like the 2nd derivative of a 3rd degree polynomial: flat. I get the feeling that the more one knows about Star Wars the less they like the new trilogy. I know that’s the case with me.

    Star Wars: A New Hope is the first movie I ever saw alone in a theater — I was 10 or 11 and got dropped off and picked up after begging to see the movie again. I was in school, in Europe, when Phantom Menace came out. As soon as I returned to the US I went to see SW:PM. My best friend, who is also a big SW fan asked me what I thought. I told him, “I’ve never been so disappointed in a movie in my life.” And that still holds true to today.

    I can’t blame Lucas, and others, for trying to have broader appeal. But they haven’t told a *smart story* since Empire Strikes Back.

    That being said, I’ve heard nothing but great things about Mandolorian. I haven’t watched it yet, but it’s on the list. My wife and I will probably pick it up after it completes next season so we can binge both seasons together.

  5. That math analogy could make a funny tee-shirt.

    I think of the new Trilogy like SW comfort food. I’m happy with it…it’s not fast food that’s greasy crap to make you feel sick, but more like hot cookies. I needed them and enjoyed them, but am ready for something new and more nutritious next.

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