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Brokeback Mountain characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Brokeback Mountain. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Brokeback Mountain 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 2 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
86.35Jack Twist
78.2Ennis Del Mar

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 Brokeback Mountain?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 12
2 It's bad 21
3 It's okay 407
4 It's good 2039
5 It's my favorite 573

This gives it an average score of 4.03 / 5. Making it 91st 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 4.05
Female 4.02

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
outlaw (not sheriff)0.06453577
chaotic (not orderly)0.06253593
deep (not shallow)0.05913634
indulgent (not sober)0.05843580
emotional (not logical)0.05383601
lenient (not strict)0.05183650
deranged (not reasonable)0.0463634
intimate (not formal)0.04293583
low-tech (not high-tech)0.04163573
social (not reclusive)0.0383577
stylish (not slovenly)0.03643580
altruistic (not selfish)0.0363582
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03523582
wild (not tame)0.03413627
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03293570
rebellious (not obedient)0.03093577
masculine (not feminine)0.03023643
arcane (not mainstream)0.02583592
loyal (not traitorous)0.02573597
haunted (not blissful)0.02073579
nerd (not jock)0.02043628
stinky (not fresh)0.01973581
artistic (not scientific)0.01963643
nurturing (not poisonous)0.01873576
creative (not conventional)0.01753644
spiritual (not skeptical)0.0143598
angelic (not demonic)0.01373579
awkward (not charming)0.01213646
genuine (not sarcastic)0.00933576
mature (not juvenile)0.0093629
genius (not dunce)0.00683591
frugal (not lavish)0.00513570
feisty (not gracious)0.00383578
alpha (not beta)0.00323568
creepy (not disarming)0.00253586
meek (not bossy)0.00143624

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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