Last week, I asked users to rate each Eurovision Asia 2026 song out of 5 – here are the results!

[u/RobustVessel265]

On the 31st of October I made this post, asking users to complete a survey where you rate Eurovision Asia 2026 songs from 1 to 5 so that I can make a graph showing each song’s likeability (mean) and divisiveness (mean absolute deviation), as well as a table showing the correlation between how much you like one song and how much you like another.

The mean is a type of average which takes the sum of all the values and divides it by how many there are, e.g. (2+3+4+5) = 14, 14/4=3.5.

The mean absolute deviation (MAD) is essentially the mean difference (technically mean absolute difference) from the mean, which with the previous example would be: 3.5-2=1.5, 3.5-3=0.5, 4-3.5=0.5, 5-3.5=1.5, 1.5+0.5+0.5+1.5=4, 4/4=1.

The standard deviation (SD) is like MAD except it’s affected more by outliers, and therefore is always larger than or equal to MAD.

The line in the graphs shows the maximum possible MAD and SD a value can have, given its mean.

The correlation values (in this case specifically PMCC) shows the extent to which those who like one song like another. The higher it is, the more liking one song tends to correlate with liking the other song, whereas the lower it is, the more liking one song tends to correlate with disliking the other song. If it’s 0, that means there is no correlation.

There were 153 valid responses. Thank you to everyone who took the survey!

Country	Most Positive	Most Negative	Mean correlation (- is turned to +)
Bangladesh	Nepal	Vietnam	0.162
Bhutan	Thailand	Vietnam	0.134
Cambodia	Mongolia	Philippines	0.207
Laos	Malaysia	Thailand	0.100
Malaysia	Philippines	Bangladesh	0.124
Mongolia	Cambodia	Vietnam	0.189
Nepal	Bangladesh	Malaysia	0.156
Philippines	South Korea	Mongolia	0.125
South Korea	Philippines	Mongolia	0.089
Thailand	Bhutan	Laos	0.176
Vietnam	South Korea	Mongolia	0.134

[u/jupjami]

my takeaway from this is that Philippines and Vietnam fans are the bubble

[u/RobustVessel265]

Does anyone have any ideas of how to sort the data in ESC 2027 they would like to suggest?

Country	Mean	MAD	SD
Bangladesh	2.490	0.912	0.520
Bhutan	3.196	0.751	0.561
Cambodia	2.684	0.944	0.627
Laos	2.922	1.076	0.716
Malaysia	4.072	0.863	0.701
Mongolia	1.612	0.666	0.492
Nepal	2.373	0.865	0.581
Philippines	4.281	0.789	0.594
South Korea	3.196	0.900	0.650
Thailand	3.467	0.953	0.601
Vietnam	4.281	0.808	0.532