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Forrest Gump

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of Forrest Gump.

Characters

The dataset has 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
85.2Forrest Gump
71.0Dan Taylor
65.5Jenny Curran

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 13 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 Forrest Gump?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 6
2 It's bad 15
3 It's okay 634
4 It's good 2901
5 It's my favorite 559

This gives it an average score of 3.97 / 5. Making it 138th out of the 342 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 3.96

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below show the correlation between a user's response to a specific self report item and their rating of this universe.

Item Correlation with rating n
altruistic (not selfish)0.07154165
loyal (not traitorous)0.06414329
angelic (not demonic)0.06254162
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05782985
deep (not shallow)0.0524271
mature (not juvenile)0.05182849
gracious (not feisty)0.05014166
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04724174
charming (not awkward)0.04524317
blissful (not haunted)0.04462909
orderly (not chaotic)0.04234225
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03864161
fresh (not stinky)0.03774173
spiritual (not skeptical)0.03434299
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03382982
reasonable (not deranged)0.03124215
genius (not dunce)0.02794229
disarming (not creepy)0.02734190
intimate (not formal)0.02554250
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02524173
stylish (not slovenly)0.02134241
jock (not nerd)0.02084190
tame (not wild)0.01872935
obedient (not rebellious)0.01614241
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01574155
social (not reclusive)0.01314169
indulgent (not sober)0.0134165
masculine (not feminine)0.0124343
meek (not bossy)0.01174189
lenient (not strict)0.01114279
artistic (not scientific)0.00933063
mainstream (not arcane)0.00864188
lavish (not frugal)0.00494155
conventional (not creative)0.00384323
beta (not alpha)0.00114157
emotional (not logical)0.00024316

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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