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The Fall of the House of Usher characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Fall of the House of Usher. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Fall of the House of Usher 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
79.1Verna
78.4Madeline Usher
78.2Roderick Usher

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 The Fall of the House of Usher?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 11
2 It's bad 17
3 It's okay 336
4 It's good 1283
5 It's my favorite 200

This gives it an average score of 3.89 / 5. Making it 198th 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 3.86
Female 3.9

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)0.07032094
deep (not shallow)0.07032093
creative (not conventional)0.06522093
genius (not dunce)0.06272074
nurturing (not poisonous)0.05992074
disarming (not creepy)0.05992070
haunted (not blissful)0.05452074
intimate (not formal)0.0522076
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05082071
arcane (not mainstream)0.04682076
indulgent (not sober)0.04542072
high-tech (not low-tech)0.04032069
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03662074
mature (not juvenile)0.03622090
outlaw (not sheriff)0.03082070
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02992069
charming (not awkward)0.02962094
altruistic (not selfish)0.0292072
orderly (not chaotic)0.02772072
loyal (not traitorous)0.02662074
lenient (not strict)0.02342094
reasonable (not deranged)0.01862097
stylish (not slovenly)0.01832072
social (not reclusive)0.01652071
bossy (not meek)0.01482098
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01372077
demonic (not angelic)0.01322068
lavish (not frugal)0.01052072
obedient (not rebellious)0.00752073
fresh (not stinky)0.00662074
masculine (not feminine)0.00472095
gracious (not feisty)0.00372070
beta (not alpha)0.00232070
wild (not tame)0.00122094
logical (not emotional)0.00092072
artistic (not scientific)0.00092097

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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