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Inception characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Inception. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Inception 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
89.0Dom Cobb
65.05Mal Cobb
61.9Ariadne
54.15Robert Fischer
53.25Arthur
49.5Mr. Saito

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 7
2 It's bad 9
3 It's okay 306
4 It's good 2268
5 It's my favorite 696

This gives it an average score of 4.11 / 5. Making it 55th 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 4.11
Female 4.11

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
genius (not dunce)0.07243414
deep (not shallow)0.0623445
high-tech (not low-tech)0.05532876
logical (not emotional)0.04393459
mature (not juvenile)0.04142805
scientific (not artistic)0.03952952
sober (not indulgent)0.03883377
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03633373
stylish (not slovenly)0.03423411
blissful (not haunted)0.03242842
disarming (not creepy)0.03113387
angelic (not demonic)0.02813369
orderly (not chaotic)0.02683413
reasonable (not deranged)0.02623418
bossy (not meek)0.02563401
conventional (not creative)0.02543488
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02353449
nerd (not jock)0.02343404
alpha (not beta)0.02183372
lenient (not strict)0.01813461
intimate (not formal)0.0153403
fresh (not stinky)0.01443382
reclusive (not social)0.01413377
lavish (not frugal)0.01223367
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01093369
obedient (not rebellious)0.01033407
charming (not awkward)0.00963484
masculine (not feminine)0.00953497
sheriff (not outlaw)0.00923369
altruistic (not selfish)0.00783381
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00393380
sarcastic (not genuine)0.00292876
tame (not wild)0.00142876
traitorous (not loyal)0.00123465
feisty (not gracious)0.0013377
arcane (not mainstream)0.00083384

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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