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Catch Me If You Can characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Catch Me If You Can. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Catch Me If You Can 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
86.95Frank Abagnale
56.5Carl Hanratty

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 Catch Me If You Can?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 11
2 It's bad 14
3 It's okay 385
4 It's good 2010
5 It's my favorite 273

This gives it an average score of 3.94 / 5. Making it 162nd 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 3.97
Female 3.92

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07942883
disarming (not creepy)0.06412886
deep (not shallow)0.0642917
reasonable (not deranged)0.06342923
masculine (not feminine)0.05662924
angelic (not demonic)0.05542879
blissful (not haunted)0.04932874
arcane (not mainstream)0.04322888
obedient (not rebellious)0.04212874
altruistic (not selfish)0.04032874
orderly (not chaotic)0.04022888
social (not reclusive)0.03632880
stinky (not fresh)0.03472878
genius (not dunce)0.03332885
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.03092877
nerd (not jock)0.02692911
indulgent (not sober)0.02642883
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02192880
logical (not emotional)0.02192897
lenient (not strict)0.01772930
low-tech (not high-tech)0.01752882
frugal (not lavish)0.01622875
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01442878
creative (not conventional)0.01222927
mature (not juvenile)0.01122913
meek (not bossy)0.00842914
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.00792883
intimate (not formal)0.00742877
gracious (not feisty)0.0062879
stylish (not slovenly)0.00552879
charming (not awkward)0.00362924
scientific (not artistic)0.00362921
beta (not alpha)0.00332877
loyal (not traitorous)0.00312897
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00232885
wild (not tame)0.00012914

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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