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High School Musical

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of High School Musical.

Characters

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

Notability Name
81.2Troy Bolton
77.5Sharpay Evans
74.2Gabriella Montez
63.9Chad Danforth
59.4Taylor McKessie
49.0Ryan 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 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 High School Musical?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 22
2 It's bad 131
3 It's okay 1561
4 It's good 2819
5 It's my favorite 649

This gives it an average score of 3.76 / 5. Making it 265th 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 3.56
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 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
feminine (not masculine)0.13775716
blissful (not haunted)0.125594
mainstream (not arcane)0.10135622
angelic (not demonic)0.09685593
social (not reclusive)0.09415605
nurturing (not poisonous)0.09115600
obedient (not rebellious)0.09075598
charming (not awkward)0.08495681
emotional (not logical)0.08225631
fresh (not stinky)0.08125600
sheriff (not outlaw)0.07925583
stylish (not slovenly)0.07915598
spiritual (not skeptical)0.07485595
reasonable (not deranged)0.06875712
gracious (not feisty)0.06795593
jock (not nerd)0.06615683
disarming (not creepy)0.06415630
altruistic (not selfish)0.06015600
loyal (not traitorous)0.05665638
artistic (not scientific)0.05525688
lavish (not frugal)0.05355583
orderly (not chaotic)0.05245601
alpha (not beta)0.04055579
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03385592
bossy (not meek)0.03175678
sober (not indulgent)0.03055592
intimate (not formal)0.02715595
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02685608
tame (not wild)0.02495685
strict (not lenient)0.02475717
genius (not dunce)0.0195603
mature (not juvenile)0.01625686
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01565601
creative (not conventional)0.00715685
deep (not shallow)0.00635675
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00495580

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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