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The Great Gatsby 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 Great Gatsby. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Great Gatsby 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
82.9Jay Gatsby
65.25Daisy Buchanan
58.95Nick Carraway
43.5Jordan Baker
37.95Tom Buchanan
30.7Myrtle 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 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 Great Gatsby?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 15
2 It's bad 69
3 It's okay 1214
4 It's good 3443
5 It's my favorite 636

This gives it an average score of 3.86 / 5. Making it 223rd 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 3.82
Female 3.86

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
fresh (not stinky)0.08235606
stylish (not slovenly)0.08095657
charming (not awkward)0.07125752
spiritual (not skeptical)0.0695723
deep (not shallow)0.06625690
feminine (not masculine)0.06115780
alpha (not beta)0.05915597
bossy (not meek)0.05915640
lavish (not frugal)0.05515599
wild (not tame)0.05324660
genius (not dunce)0.05275671
social (not reclusive)0.04445607
mature (not juvenile)0.04274607
jock (not nerd)0.0425636
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04145602
high-tech (not low-tech)0.04094669
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.03625582
angelic (not demonic)0.02955598
loyal (not traitorous)0.02435750
emotional (not logical)0.0245746
orderly (not chaotic)0.02395668
strict (not lenient)0.02255734
blissful (not haunted)0.0194631
rebellious (not obedient)0.01875656
indulgent (not sober)0.01875603
creative (not conventional)0.01835749
intimate (not formal)0.01545663
disarming (not creepy)0.01475635
sarcastic (not genuine)0.01334680
artistic (not scientific)0.0124768
sheriff (not outlaw)0.00955599
arcane (not mainstream)0.00725627
altruistic (not selfish)0.00555607
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0045604
gracious (not feisty)0.00355606
reasonable (not deranged)0.00255664

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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