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Atlas Shrugged characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Atlas Shrugged. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Atlas Shrugged character are you?" test, click the link above to access it. This page aggregates the crowd sourced data that the quiz is built upon.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
87.3Dagny Taggart
79.75John Galt
74.65Henry Rearden
65.2Francisco d'Anconia
39.95Ellis Wyatt
34.25James Taggart

To see how each character was rated by users, view their individual page.

Viewership

The graph below shows what percent of people selected this universe as something they knew well enough to rate characters from by the age of the user (for users between 16 and 60 years of age).
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Rating

As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate Atlas Shrugged?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 193
2 It's bad 172
3 It's okay 593
4 It's good 588
5 It's my favorite 146

This gives it an average score of 3.19 / 5. Making it 365th out of the 369 universes in the dataset ordered by rating.

The average rating may be hard to generalize, though; the users of one online personality quiz could not be representative of the population in important ways. And there are some very obvious things you can point to: users of this quiz are more likely to be young and more likely to be women.

There are several different ways that average ratings can be broken down. Here are average scores by gender:

Gender Average rating
Male 3.23
Female 3.16

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below shows the correlation between a user's response to a specific self report item and their rating of this universe.

Item Correlation with rating n
strict (not lenient)0.13111742
genius (not dunce)0.13021715
scientific (not artistic)0.131388
orderly (not chaotic)0.12511722
deep (not shallow)0.12391727
sheriff (not outlaw)0.1191689
logical (not emotional)0.11861739
alpha (not beta)0.11811692
blissful (not haunted)0.10651322
sober (not indulgent)0.09881687
reasonable (not deranged)0.09461709
fresh (not stinky)0.091697
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.07441691
genuine (not sarcastic)0.07371337
disarming (not creepy)0.07361694
selfish (not altruistic)0.07321687
charming (not awkward)0.07061754
spiritual (not skeptical)0.07021726
mature (not juvenile)0.06681310
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.06561697
bossy (not meek)0.06531700
loyal (not traitorous)0.06251737
stylish (not slovenly)0.06021711
masculine (not feminine)0.06011760
angelic (not demonic)0.05281691
conventional (not creative)0.04581754
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04071690
gracious (not feisty)0.04041690
obedient (not rebellious)0.02831706
jock (not nerd)0.02071704
intimate (not formal)0.01761702
tame (not wild)0.01261334
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01031338
arcane (not mainstream)0.00871701
frugal (not lavish)0.00761693
social (not reclusive)0.00731692

How these items predict the ratings for this universe can be compared to how the same items predict the ratings of other universes. The universes with the most similar patterns on the predictors are:

Notes

  1. Notability is computed as the average of 204: important (not irrelevant) and 401: main character (not side character).
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