Very Fairly Neither...nor.. Not very Not at all
Received Pronunciation
Friendly 0 3 3 6 1
Intelligent 10 4 0 0 0
Trustworthy 1 6 6 1 0
Brummie
Friendly 0 8 4 2 0
Intelligent 0 0 2 9 3
Trustworthy 0 4 7 2 1
Scouse
Friendly 0 7 4 1(from Liverpool) 0
Intelligent (From Liverpool)1 4 5 4 0
Trustworthy 1 6 4 2 1
The recieved pronunciation (RP) came across as more intelligent compared to scouse and brummie. The results of the class survey also suggests that the majority believe that they are not friendly. This could indicate a connection between intelligence and friendliness as it seem that people find RP to sound intelligent but not too friendly and brummie to sound friendly but not intelligent. The trustworthiness of RP is a little in the middle with a sway to the positive side.
In the scouse section it is more middle/positive. When it comes to the friendliness of the scouse accent most people were positive but there was an anomaly with a single per on saying that they did not find the accent friendly. However, this may be because she is from Liverpool which is allowing her to have experiences with that accent that others don't, thus the different idea of the accent. This happens again with intelligence, there was one person who voted scouse to sound very intelligent. Although this was different to the others decision it wasn't that different as the rest were very middle orientated not really picking one side from the other.
The recorded voices were 2 men (brummie and scouse) and a women (received pronunciation). This may have swayed people opinions on how they felt about the accents. Something to take into account when looking at these results is that there is not an even ratio of boys to girls in the class which could have made a difference to the results as people may feel more positive or negative to someone who is of the same sex.
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