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Calvin and Hobbes characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Calvin and Hobbes. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Calvin and Hobbes 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
90.7Calvin
82.05Hobbes
51.3Calvin's mom
40.45Susie Derkins
38.2Calvin's dad

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 Calvin and Hobbes?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 18
2 It's bad 7
3 It's okay 442
4 It's good 2328
5 It's my favorite 943

This gives it an average score of 4.12 / 5. Making it 51st 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 4.23
Female 4.05

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
masculine (not feminine)0.10864260
arcane (not mainstream)0.09834176
nerd (not jock)0.07824181
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07444170
genius (not dunce)0.07354229
frugal (not lavish)0.07264166
disarming (not creepy)0.07174182
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06863108
deep (not shallow)0.06854192
slovenly (not stylish)0.06694164
reasonable (not deranged)0.06574196
tame (not wild)0.06263131
meek (not bossy)0.0564193
altruistic (not selfish)0.05374172
logical (not emotional)0.05254244
loyal (not traitorous)0.04654247
gracious (not feisty)0.04374169
skeptical (not spiritual)0.03994232
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03963105
angelic (not demonic)0.03694171
lenient (not strict)0.03654268
stinky (not fresh)0.03464179
reclusive (not social)0.0324171
creative (not conventional)0.03174256
intimate (not formal)0.02684174
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02334167
orderly (not chaotic)0.02294243
charming (not awkward)0.01774251
haunted (not blissful)0.01423105
obedient (not rebellious)0.01154164
scientific (not artistic)0.01113199
beta (not alpha)0.01054163
juvenile (not mature)0.00483098
indulgent (not sober)0.00424167
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00144163
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00124164

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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