The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of LOST. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What LOST character are you?" test, click the link above to access it. This page aggregates the crowd sourced data that the quiz is built upon.
| Notability | Name |
|---|---|
| 84.85 | Jack Shephard |
| 81.15 | James 'Sawyer' Ford |
| 77.1 | John Locke |
| 74.4 | Kate Austen |
| 72.1 | Sayid Jarrah |
| 60.05 | Jin-Soo Kwon |
| 56.7 | Benjamin Linus |
| 56.05 | Desmond Hume |
| 56.05 | Charlie Pace |
| 51.55 | Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes |
| 48.05 | Juliet Burke |
| 43.5 | Sun-Hwa Kwon |
| 39.25 | Claire Littleton |
| 36.8 | Michael Dawson |
| 25.15 | Shannon Rutherford |
To see how each character was rated by users, view their individual page.
As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate LOST?". The distribution of their responses are below.
| # | Response | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's the worst | 49 |
| 2 | It's bad | 75 |
| 3 | It's okay | 1278 |
| 4 | It's good | 3157 |
| 5 | It's my favorite | 861 |
This gives it an average score of 3.87 / 5. Making it 214th 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 | 3.85 |
| Female | 3.87 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| angelic (not demonic) | 0.0896 | 5462 |
| nurturing (not poisonous) | 0.0742 | 5474 |
| deep (not shallow) | 0.0671 | 5613 |
| reasonable (not deranged) | 0.0622 | 5496 |
| disarming (not creepy) | 0.0554 | 5482 |
| nerd (not jock) | 0.0553 | 5497 |
| altruistic (not selfish) | 0.0494 | 5476 |
| genius (not dunce) | 0.0492 | 5555 |
| lenient (not strict) | 0.0472 | 5580 |
| mature (not juvenile) | 0.0417 | 4146 |
| orderly (not chaotic) | 0.0408 | 5552 |
| intimate (not formal) | 0.0377 | 5589 |
| gracious (not feisty) | 0.0373 | 5462 |
| obedient (not rebellious) | 0.033 | 5574 |
| sheriff (not outlaw) | 0.0321 | 5468 |
| stylish (not slovenly) | 0.0284 | 5583 |
| loyal (not traitorous) | 0.0283 | 5673 |
| tame (not wild) | 0.0272 | 4188 |
| genuine (not sarcastic) | 0.026 | 4269 |
| social (not reclusive) | 0.0243 | 5477 |
| indulgent (not sober) | 0.0194 | 5459 |
| adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud) | 0.0193 | 5473 |
| bossy (not meek) | 0.0143 | 5490 |
| feminine (not masculine) | 0.0139 | 5693 |
| emotional (not logical) | 0.013 | 5666 |
| low-tech (not high-tech) | 0.0092 | 4274 |
| scientific (not artistic) | 0.0089 | 4376 |
| conventional (not creative) | 0.0061 | 5683 |
| blissful (not haunted) | 0.0058 | 4148 |
| frugal (not lavish) | 0.0056 | 5458 |
| spiritual (not skeptical) | 0.0047 | 5656 |
| stinky (not fresh) | 0.0044 | 5474 |
| beta (not alpha) | 0.0037 | 5461 |
| awkward (not charming) | 0.0029 | 5677 |
| arcane (not mainstream) | 0.0024 | 5476 |
| ivory-tower (not blue-collar) | 0.0019 | 5450 |
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: