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Good Will Hunting characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Good Will Hunting. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Good Will Hunting 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
87.95Will Hunting
74.9Dr. Sean Maguire
49.85Skylar

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 Good Will Hunting?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 7
2 It's bad 9
3 It's okay 261
4 It's good 2500
5 It's my favorite 782

This gives it an average score of 4.14 / 5. Making it 40th 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 4.14
Female 4.13

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
deep (not shallow)0.07793646
reasonable (not deranged)0.06793647
disarming (not creepy)0.06343637
mature (not juvenile)0.05992498
altruistic (not selfish)0.05423622
genius (not dunce)0.04873676
intimate (not formal)0.0473630
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04463619
fresh (not stinky)0.03993630
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03853632
logical (not emotional)0.03843684
social (not reclusive)0.03773625
stylish (not slovenly)0.03653619
loyal (not traitorous)0.0363695
frugal (not lavish)0.02863614
angelic (not demonic)0.02793621
masculine (not feminine)0.02773708
scientific (not artistic)0.02522618
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.0253610
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02323620
blissful (not haunted)0.02212533
tame (not wild)0.02072561
sober (not indulgent)0.01773618
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01493678
charming (not awkward)0.01133694
gracious (not feisty)0.01083625
creative (not conventional)0.01023697
genuine (not sarcastic)0.00512539
lenient (not strict)0.00433708
chaotic (not orderly)0.00393682
alpha (not beta)0.00353620
mainstream (not arcane)0.00313631
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00272527
nerd (not jock)0.00263635
meek (not bossy)0.00183646
rebellious (not obedient)0.00063619

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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