The reported mean of 7.7 is misleading because it appears that close to half of your participants are scoring below that mean

• children were referred to as "epsilons" (because in mathematics, particularly calculus, an arbitrarily small positive quantity is commonly denoted by the Greek letter (ε))
• Women were "bosses".
• Men were "slaves".
• People who stopped doing mathematics had "died".
• People who physically died had "left".
• Alcoholic drinks were "poison".
• Music (except classical music) was "noise".
• People who had married were "captured".
• People who had divorced were "liberated".
• To give a mathematical lecture was "to preach".
• To give an oral exam to a student was "to torture" him/her.