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Ghostbusters

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

Characters

The dataset has 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
73.3Peter Venkman
72.5Egon Spengler
69.7Dana Barrett
67.7Ray Stantz
54.0Louis 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 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 Ghostbusters?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 15
2 It's bad 20
3 It's okay 829
4 It's good 1670
5 It's my favorite 191

This gives it an average score of 3.73 / 5. Making it 277th 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 3.9
Female 3.69

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
nerd (not jock)0.17092912
masculine (not feminine)0.12072985
nurturing (not poisonous)0.11912898
loyal (not traitorous)0.1112969
slovenly (not stylish)0.09232914
reclusive (not social)0.09212899
deep (not shallow)0.08392934
altruistic (not selfish)0.07942896
meek (not bossy)0.07852909
arcane (not mainstream)0.06722914
awkward (not charming)0.06682957
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06522388
reasonable (not deranged)0.06172937
tame (not wild)0.06112378
frugal (not lavish)0.0612884
haunted (not blissful)0.06042365
beta (not alpha)0.05852888
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.05592883
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.05512896
obedient (not rebellious)0.05222913
sheriff (not outlaw)0.0492891
mature (not juvenile)0.04262346
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0412939
lenient (not strict)0.03812968
angelic (not demonic)0.03352893
orderly (not chaotic)0.03342922
genius (not dunce)0.03232920
creative (not conventional)0.03132962
stinky (not fresh)0.02522895
gracious (not feisty)0.02472895
scientific (not artistic)0.02152429
logical (not emotional)0.01922973
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01612382
disarming (not creepy)0.00912915
formal (not intimate)0.00392913
indulgent (not sober)0.00092891

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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