Excitement-Seeking Norms

Empirical population distributions and percentile tables calculated from 1,410,553 respondents.

💡All assessment reports use Percentile Ranks (0–100th %ile) relative to global population norms.

Population Mean

12.61

Scale: 4–20

Std. Deviation

3.24

Variance: 10.50

Median (P50)

50th Percentile

Skewness

Kurtosis: -0.44

Percentile Conversion Table

Percentile Rank	P1	P5	P10	P25 (Q1)	P50 (Median)	P75 (Q3)	P90	P95	P99
Raw Score Threshold	5	7	8	10	13	15	17	18	20

Male (N = 548,799)Mean 12.74 (SD 3.21)

Female (N = 861,754)Mean 12.53 (SD 3.26)

Age 10-17Mean: 13.44 (SD 3.31)

Age 18-24Mean: 12.99 (SD 3.14)

Age 25-34Mean: 12.13 (SD 3.11)

Age 35-49Mean: 11.18 (SD 3.07)

Age 50-64Mean: 10.6 (SD 3.01)

Age 65+Mean: 10.37 (SD 3.19)

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