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Dune characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Dune. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Dune 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
93.1Paul Atreides
68.65Lady Jessica
64.6Duke Leto Atreides
62.55Chani
55.75Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
53.15Thufir Hawat

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 Dune?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 64
2 It's bad 72
3 It's okay 833
4 It's good 2158
5 It's my favorite 502

This gives it an average score of 3.82 / 5. Making it 248th 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 4.02
Female 3.65

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)0.18043881
arcane (not mainstream)0.17033718
nerd (not jock)0.1583718
skeptical (not spiritual)0.12033837
genius (not dunce)0.11963741
logical (not emotional)0.11833865
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0832789
scientific (not artistic)0.08092863
stinky (not fresh)0.07983699
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07963700
indulgent (not sober)0.07813691
deep (not shallow)0.07763821
slovenly (not stylish)0.07413796
haunted (not blissful)0.06932691
reasonable (not deranged)0.06633739
tame (not wild)0.06262718
reclusive (not social)0.05733695
gracious (not feisty)0.05553692
frugal (not lavish)0.0533682
meek (not bossy)0.05173717
altruistic (not selfish)0.0443692
disarming (not creepy)0.03543716
orderly (not chaotic)0.03223745
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.0293697
loyal (not traitorous)0.02823864
intimate (not formal)0.01483795
charming (not awkward)0.01253862
rebellious (not obedient)0.01183791
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01113690
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00982792
beta (not alpha)0.00833689
demonic (not angelic)0.00633693
lenient (not strict)0.00333790
mature (not juvenile)0.0032701
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00273690
conventional (not creative)0.0013864

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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