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Table 5 Overview on the raters (A–D) by age, gender, ethnicity, professional relation to music, instruments played, and ballroom dance abilities. The last column indicates the cross-correlation (CC) between valence (V) and arousal (A) for each rater's annotations.

From: Determination of Nonprototypical Valence and Arousal in Popular Music: Features and Performances

Rater

Age

Gender

Ethnicity

Prof. Relation

Instruments

Dancing

CC(V,A)

A

34 years

m

European

club D. J.

guitar, drums/percussion

Standard/Latin

0.34

B

23 years

m

European

piano

Standard

0.08

C

26 years

m

European

piano

Latin

0.09

D

32 years

f

Asian

0.43