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The Great Gatsby

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

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
83.2Jay Gatsby
67.7Daisy Buchanan
64.1Nick Carraway
51.9Jordan Baker
46.3Tom Buchanan
43.6Myrtle Wilson

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 The Great Gatsby?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 13
2 It's bad 52
3 It's okay 971
4 It's good 2817
5 It's my favorite 530

This gives it an average score of 3.87 / 5. Making it 206th 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 3.82
Female 3.87

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
fresh (not stinky)0.08024547
stylish (not slovenly)0.07394600
deep (not shallow)0.07154618
charming (not awkward)0.06864668
spiritual (not skeptical)0.06374650
lavish (not frugal)0.06184541
feminine (not masculine)0.06064695
genius (not dunce)0.05464600
wild (not tame)0.0533591
bossy (not meek)0.05094570
alpha (not beta)0.05014540
mature (not juvenile)0.04793536
jock (not nerd)0.03994565
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03914547
social (not reclusive)0.03864549
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.03664528
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03533614
loyal (not traitorous)0.03314679
angelic (not demonic)0.02794541
creative (not conventional)0.02614666
emotional (not logical)0.02344677
sarcastic (not genuine)0.02273624
rebellious (not obedient)0.01924599
indulgent (not sober)0.0194545
strict (not lenient)0.01874651
disarming (not creepy)0.01864577
orderly (not chaotic)0.01794597
artistic (not scientific)0.01613687
blissful (not haunted)0.0163573
arcane (not mainstream)0.01414570
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01294541
altruistic (not selfish)0.00864550
reasonable (not deranged)0.00834598
nurturing (not poisonous)0.00564548
gracious (not feisty)0.00334548
formal (not intimate)0.00284606

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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