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Hamlet characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Hamlet. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Hamlet 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
83.35Prince Hamlet
65.85Ophelia
59.45King Claudius
53.65Horatio
42.5Queen Gertrude
33.7Polonius

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 47
2 It's bad 90
3 It's okay 1504
4 It's good 2121
5 It's my favorite 281

This gives it an average score of 3.62 / 5. Making it 334th 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 3.71
Female 3.6

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)0.17934385
arcane (not mainstream)0.16744368
deep (not shallow)0.12134383
haunted (not blissful)0.10822521
genius (not dunce)0.09634455
low-tech (not high-tech)0.08382510
reclusive (not social)0.08034372
creative (not conventional)0.07064483
stinky (not fresh)0.06374369
masculine (not feminine)0.05254498
nurturing (not poisonous)0.05044382
genuine (not sarcastic)0.04642519
mature (not juvenile)0.0432503
meek (not bossy)0.04254383
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.03524368
logical (not emotional)0.03054456
frugal (not lavish)0.02924366
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.02754357
artistic (not scientific)0.02712638
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02584463
indulgent (not sober)0.02544363
gracious (not feisty)0.02224377
altruistic (not selfish)0.02034377
chaotic (not orderly)0.01784478
outlaw (not sheriff)0.01324367
angelic (not demonic)0.01324373
disarming (not creepy)0.01324388
rebellious (not obedient)0.01264367
tame (not wild)0.00952542
strict (not lenient)0.0074503
awkward (not charming)0.00524478
slovenly (not stylish)0.00494368
deranged (not reasonable)0.00454395
traitorous (not loyal)0.00114491
formal (not intimate)0.00044379
alpha (not beta)0.00014372

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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