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Dirty Dancing characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Dirty Dancing. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Dirty Dancing 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
78.35Frances 'Baby' Houseman
77.55Johnny Castle

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 Dirty Dancing?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 5
2 It's bad 23
3 It's okay 437
4 It's good 1485
5 It's my favorite 374

This gives it an average score of 3.95 / 5. Making it 154th 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 3.7
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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06582409
feminine (not masculine)0.0582449
angelic (not demonic)0.05652410
reasonable (not deranged)0.05362433
disarming (not creepy)0.05342426
loyal (not traitorous)0.0472435
nerd (not jock)0.04692433
genuine (not sarcastic)0.04562417
intimate (not formal)0.03922410
spiritual (not skeptical)0.0362420
lavish (not frugal)0.02662411
artistic (not scientific)0.02632442
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02362406
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02342411
bossy (not meek)0.02332430
obedient (not rebellious)0.02262412
fresh (not stinky)0.02222416
altruistic (not selfish)0.02112416
conventional (not creative)0.01982437
blissful (not haunted)0.0182413
awkward (not charming)0.01632440
emotional (not logical)0.01632432
beta (not alpha)0.01442411
dunce (not genius)0.01442421
mature (not juvenile)0.01422429
lenient (not strict)0.01232450
social (not reclusive)0.01182409
stylish (not slovenly)0.01062409
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00952404
indulgent (not sober)0.00872411
feisty (not gracious)0.00552412
mainstream (not arcane)0.00472420
tame (not wild)0.00462431
orderly (not chaotic)0.00232424
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00222413
shallow (not deep)0.00142429

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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