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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 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
77.6Clementine Kruczynski
62.5Joel Barish
38.5Mary Svevo

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 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 9
2 It's bad 21
3 It's okay 321
4 It's good 1764
5 It's my favorite 828

This gives it an average score of 4.15 / 5. Making it 33rd 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 4.15
Female 4.15

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
intimate (not formal)0.09073077
emotional (not logical)0.08713140
outlaw (not sheriff)0.08573053
rebellious (not obedient)0.06053085
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.05253065
nerd (not jock)0.05133079
artistic (not scientific)0.05082708
juvenile (not mature)0.05032614
lenient (not strict)0.05023138
haunted (not blissful)0.04792622
indulgent (not sober)0.04543059
wild (not tame)0.0432650
deranged (not reasonable)0.04273097
deep (not shallow)0.04263108
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03742648
arcane (not mainstream)0.03723071
meek (not bossy)0.03413082
chaotic (not orderly)0.03173101
creative (not conventional)0.03153149
feminine (not masculine)0.03123161
stinky (not fresh)0.02853065
beta (not alpha)0.02483051
spiritual (not skeptical)0.02433122
awkward (not charming)0.02433145
frugal (not lavish)0.02193053
feisty (not gracious)0.01983054
loyal (not traitorous)0.01823144
poisonous (not nurturing)0.01223059
dunce (not genius)0.01023097
reclusive (not social)0.013061
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00973047
stylish (not slovenly)0.00553086
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00182649
disarming (not creepy)0.00143082
altruistic (not selfish)0.00133058
demonic (not angelic)0.00013056

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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