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High School Musical characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of High School Musical. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What High School Musical 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
87.55Troy Bolton
79.7Sharpay Evans
76.8Gabriella Montez
45.1Chad Danforth
43.85Taylor McKessie
43.05Ryan Evans

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 High School Musical?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 38
2 It's bad 164
3 It's okay 2327
4 It's good 4502
5 It's my favorite 950

This gives it an average score of 3.77 / 5. Making it 271st 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 3.56
Female 3.79

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
feminine (not masculine)0.13568672
blissful (not haunted)0.11098502
angelic (not demonic)0.11068504
mainstream (not arcane)0.09818525
nurturing (not poisonous)0.09048509
social (not reclusive)0.08938511
obedient (not rebellious)0.08648505
fresh (not stinky)0.08258514
stylish (not slovenly)0.07818508
disarming (not creepy)0.07738540
loyal (not traitorous)0.07228577
altruistic (not selfish)0.07178508
reasonable (not deranged)0.07158639
spiritual (not skeptical)0.06958535
emotional (not logical)0.0698567
sheriff (not outlaw)0.06528481
gracious (not feisty)0.06248505
charming (not awkward)0.05958650
artistic (not scientific)0.05118651
lavish (not frugal)0.05078481
jock (not nerd)0.04768616
orderly (not chaotic)0.04548542
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03868518
sober (not indulgent)0.03298500
bossy (not meek)0.02978609
alpha (not beta)0.02788480
mature (not juvenile)0.02678619
intimate (not formal)0.0258498
tame (not wild)0.02358618
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02048510
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01958493
deep (not shallow)0.0198609
strict (not lenient)0.01198682
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01068478
genius (not dunce)0.00518538
creative (not conventional)0.00258645

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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