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Die Hard characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Die Hard. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Die Hard 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
90.85John McClane
72.45Hans Gruber
36.3Holly Gennero-McClane

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 Die Hard?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 18
2 It's bad 12
3 It's okay 342
4 It's good 1197
5 It's my favorite 204

This gives it an average score of 3.88 / 5. Making it 206th 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 3.92
Female 3.85

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)0.1051979
disarming (not creepy)0.10491964
reasonable (not deranged)0.09611981
nurturing (not poisonous)0.09191957
masculine (not feminine)0.08241987
sheriff (not outlaw)0.0781959
tame (not wild)0.06751981
obedient (not rebellious)0.06511957
stinky (not fresh)0.06011958
angelic (not demonic)0.05861956
altruistic (not selfish)0.05771954
logical (not emotional)0.05771969
genius (not dunce)0.05611956
scientific (not artistic)0.05311985
lenient (not strict)0.05081993
gracious (not feisty)0.05051957
orderly (not chaotic)0.041959
arcane (not mainstream)0.03851966
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03761960
slovenly (not stylish)0.03441956
reclusive (not social)0.03341960
indulgent (not sober)0.0311955
mature (not juvenile)0.02891978
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02821961
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02551957
meek (not bossy)0.02371977
loyal (not traitorous)0.02351969
haunted (not blissful)0.01331955
charming (not awkward)0.0121984
frugal (not lavish)0.01191954
deep (not shallow)0.01091980
conventional (not creative)0.00761981
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00721959
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00511954
intimate (not formal)0.00331961
alpha (not beta)0.00211959

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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