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Ex Machina characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Ex Machina. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Ex Machina 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
80.7Ava
73.0Nathan Bateman
54.3Caleb Smith

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 Ex Machina?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 9
2 It's bad 8
3 It's okay 329
4 It's good 1460
5 It's my favorite 191

This gives it an average score of 3.91 / 5. Making it 189th 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 3.94
Female 3.89

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
genius (not dunce)0.10422107
deep (not shallow)0.09482084
nerd (not jock)0.0892076
skeptical (not spiritual)0.07762103
disarming (not creepy)0.07172065
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06242068
mature (not juvenile)0.06221197
reasonable (not deranged)0.06142082
tame (not wild)0.06081224
angelic (not demonic)0.05852063
intimate (not formal)0.05272069
masculine (not feminine)0.05182125
lenient (not strict)0.052123
creative (not conventional)0.03932118
altruistic (not selfish)0.03132072
arcane (not mainstream)0.03092063
logical (not emotional)0.02962105
indulgent (not sober)0.02882061
social (not reclusive)0.02852067
obedient (not rebellious)0.02782063
scientific (not artistic)0.02691265
charming (not awkward)0.02142116
haunted (not blissful)0.0211203
slovenly (not stylish)0.01782064
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01772069
loyal (not traitorous)0.01752113
frugal (not lavish)0.01632061
sheriff (not outlaw)0.0162062
stinky (not fresh)0.01262068
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01161209
feisty (not gracious)0.00992064
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00961202
meek (not bossy)0.00962078
alpha (not beta)0.00242063
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00192064
orderly (not chaotic)0.00132109

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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