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Death Note characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Death Note. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Death Note 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 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
87.9Light Yagami
85.8L
77.05Ryuk
53.1Misa Amane
45.35Soichiro Yagami
37.15Watari
24.9Touta Matsuda
22.05Shuichi Aizawa
18.8Kanzo Mogi
15.05Hideki Ide

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 Death Note?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 26
2 It's bad 51
3 It's okay 1288
4 It's good 4292
5 It's my favorite 1057

This gives it an average score of 3.94 / 5. Making it 159th 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 3.96
Female 3.93

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)0.04827956
deep (not shallow)0.04617961
reclusive (not social)0.03917876
arcane (not mainstream)0.03827914
intimate (not formal)0.03447876
orderly (not chaotic)0.03217890
genius (not dunce)0.0247892
selfish (not altruistic)0.02287868
mature (not juvenile)0.0227953
creepy (not disarming)0.02127918
stylish (not slovenly)0.02067877
awkward (not charming)0.01967977
meek (not bossy)0.01787955
fresh (not stinky)0.01667879
angelic (not demonic)0.01647870
scientific (not artistic)0.01587976
beta (not alpha)0.01547864
tame (not wild)0.01537966
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01447857
strict (not lenient)0.01158019
masculine (not feminine)0.01148012
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01037896
frugal (not lavish)0.017842
nurturing (not poisonous)0.00927876
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00897862
sheriff (not outlaw)0.00867872
traitorous (not loyal)0.00837931
genuine (not sarcastic)0.00757875
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00747875
logical (not emotional)0.00567937
creative (not conventional)0.00437972
haunted (not blissful)0.00357870
reasonable (not deranged)0.00267988
sober (not indulgent)0.00247873
rebellious (not obedient)0.00197879
gracious (not feisty)0.00027874

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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