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The Handmaid's Tale 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 Handmaid's Tale. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Handmaid's Tale 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
91.55June Osborne
59.2Serena Joy Waterford
54.85Nick Blaine
50.2Janine Lindo
45.0Rita

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 Handmaid's Tale?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 26
2 It's bad 36
3 It's okay 724
4 It's good 2986
5 It's my favorite 749

This gives it an average score of 3.97 / 5. Making it 136th 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 3.89
Female 3.98

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)0.07814614
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07284556
disarming (not creepy)0.07064550
loyal (not traitorous)0.06384675
intimate (not formal)0.06214590
reasonable (not deranged)0.05874569
feminine (not masculine)0.05424687
genuine (not sarcastic)0.04692252
indulgent (not sober)0.04524548
altruistic (not selfish)0.04384555
fresh (not stinky)0.04174556
orderly (not chaotic)0.04164628
lenient (not strict)0.04084656
angelic (not demonic)0.03954548
mature (not juvenile)0.03852171
genius (not dunce)0.03764628
mainstream (not arcane)0.03694554
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03292246
creative (not conventional)0.03214686
artistic (not scientific)0.02692347
emotional (not logical)0.02574665
nerd (not jock)0.02254567
stylish (not slovenly)0.02214591
alpha (not beta)0.02114540
blissful (not haunted)0.02082208
bossy (not meek)0.024567
sheriff (not outlaw)0.0174547
feisty (not gracious)0.01234545
charming (not awkward)0.01164676
social (not reclusive)0.01144548
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01074553
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01074539
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01014656
obedient (not rebellious)0.00854586
lavish (not frugal)0.00634540
wild (not tame)0.00142235

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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