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Back to the Future characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Back to the Future. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Back to the Future 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
88.3Marty McFly
76.3Doc Brown
30.25Jennifer Parker

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 Back to the Future?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 12
2 It's bad 24
3 It's okay 959
4 It's good 4086
5 It's my favorite 897

This gives it an average score of 3.98 / 5. Making it 133rd 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 4.01
Female 3.96

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
nerd (not jock)0.07056267
loyal (not traitorous)0.0696385
angelic (not demonic)0.05546214
masculine (not feminine)0.04966434
altruistic (not selfish)0.04946223
disarming (not creepy)0.04946246
meek (not bossy)0.0466269
sheriff (not outlaw)0.04566213
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04096215
reasonable (not deranged)0.04086296
tame (not wild)0.03975224
intimate (not formal)0.03276277
gracious (not feisty)0.03036221
reclusive (not social)0.02856234
lenient (not strict)0.0276377
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02665226
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02595227
creative (not conventional)0.02416414
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02376211
beta (not alpha)0.02346212
orderly (not chaotic)0.02146304
fresh (not stinky)0.01446231
arcane (not mainstream)0.01386238
obedient (not rebellious)0.01356278
sober (not indulgent)0.01346217
scientific (not artistic)0.01245355
frugal (not lavish)0.01156210
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01146226
slovenly (not stylish)0.00926285
blissful (not haunted)0.00915156
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00876356
emotional (not logical)0.00756381
deep (not shallow)0.00626343
juvenile (not mature)0.00545125
genius (not dunce)0.00486301
awkward (not charming)0.00116405

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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