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Ghostbusters characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Ghostbusters. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Ghostbusters 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
78.65Peter Venkman
58.9Egon Spengler
58.1Dana Barrett
56.25Ray Stantz
35.8Louis Tully

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 Ghostbusters?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 22
2 It's bad 29
3 It's okay 1285
4 It's good 2274
5 It's my favorite 255

This gives it an average score of 3.7 / 5. Making it 308th 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 3.85
Female 3.65

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)0.18224154
masculine (not feminine)0.13094234
nurturing (not poisonous)0.09964133
arcane (not mainstream)0.09374146
deep (not shallow)0.094171
reclusive (not social)0.08784131
haunted (not blissful)0.08663602
loyal (not traitorous)0.08324210
awkward (not charming)0.0824201
meek (not bossy)0.0794148
slovenly (not stylish)0.07514148
frugal (not lavish)0.06554119
beta (not alpha)0.06054123
altruistic (not selfish)0.05794133
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05263624
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.05244117
genius (not dunce)0.05124163
tame (not wild)0.04753620
creative (not conventional)0.04614211
reasonable (not deranged)0.04364176
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.04114134
stinky (not fresh)0.03734131
logical (not emotional)0.0374217
lenient (not strict)0.03694216
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02764177
mature (not juvenile)0.02733586
obedient (not rebellious)0.02734150
gracious (not feisty)0.01934127
disarming (not creepy)0.01654149
scientific (not artistic)0.01483677
indulgent (not sober)0.0144124
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01294126
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00733616
orderly (not chaotic)0.00564165
angelic (not demonic)0.00544130
intimate (not formal)0.00464146

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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