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Independence Day characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Independence Day. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Independence Day 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
90.5Steven Hiller
65.9David Levinson
63.25Thomas J. Whitmore

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 Independence Day?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 21
2 It's bad 23
3 It's okay 621
4 It's good 1574
5 It's my favorite 142

This gives it an average score of 3.75 / 5. Making it 282nd 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 3.75
Female 3.75

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)0.10032405
mature (not juvenile)0.09211339
genius (not dunce)0.09192440
genuine (not sarcastic)0.07911379
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07622404
deep (not shallow)0.07372427
obedient (not rebellious)0.07122418
frugal (not lavish)0.072403
sheriff (not outlaw)0.06642399
angelic (not demonic)0.06032400
logical (not emotional)0.05852462
masculine (not feminine)0.04872471
altruistic (not selfish)0.04612400
reasonable (not deranged)0.04362418
disarming (not creepy)0.04322408
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.04172401
arcane (not mainstream)0.03822405
indulgent (not sober)0.03822400
slovenly (not stylish)0.03792419
stinky (not fresh)0.03252401
awkward (not charming)0.03112462
reclusive (not social)0.03032399
intimate (not formal)0.02882418
orderly (not chaotic)0.02732440
creative (not conventional)0.02262459
loyal (not traitorous)0.02252465
alpha (not beta)0.02192405
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02111377
bossy (not meek)0.01532407
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01432455
scientific (not artistic)0.01381426
feisty (not gracious)0.01282396
wild (not tame)0.00991370
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.00952405
strict (not lenient)0.0092447
haunted (not blissful)0.00341359

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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