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Fahrenheit 451 characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Fahrenheit 451. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Fahrenheit 451 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
85.5Guy Montag
55.15Clarisse McClellan
37.95Linda Montag

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 Fahrenheit 451?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 14
2 It's bad 58
3 It's okay 571
4 It's good 847
5 It's my favorite 101

This gives it an average score of 3.61 / 5. Making it 339th 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 3.63
Female 3.6

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)0.11641648
arcane (not mainstream)0.08821768
creative (not conventional)0.06551659
slovenly (not stylish)0.06481638
deep (not shallow)0.06331653
gracious (not feisty)0.06151635
frugal (not lavish)0.0571636
indulgent (not sober)0.04871640
genius (not dunce)0.04321646
logical (not emotional)0.0421774
low-tech (not high-tech)0.0421633
loyal (not traitorous)0.03411776
stinky (not fresh)0.03371638
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02991639
beta (not alpha)0.02981633
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02961648
nurturing (not poisonous)0.02741639
rebellious (not obedient)0.02731638
orderly (not chaotic)0.0261645
strict (not lenient)0.02481787
creepy (not disarming)0.02411763
haunted (not blissful)0.02351634
masculine (not feminine)0.02321785
artistic (not scientific)0.02181658
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02141641
mature (not juvenile)0.01921650
reasonable (not deranged)0.01821774
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01781636
reclusive (not social)0.01691635
tame (not wild)0.01241647
formal (not intimate)0.00841636
charming (not awkward)0.00651657
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00511633
demonic (not angelic)0.0051636
altruistic (not selfish)0.00391640
bossy (not meek)0.00381646

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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