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LOST characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

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.

Characters

The dataset has 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
84.85Jack Shephard
81.15James 'Sawyer' Ford
77.1John Locke
74.4Kate Austen
72.1Sayid Jarrah
60.05Jin-Soo Kwon
56.7Benjamin Linus
56.05Desmond Hume
56.05Charlie Pace
51.55Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
48.05Juliet Burke
43.5Sun-Hwa Kwon
39.25Claire Littleton
36.8Michael Dawson
25.15Shannon Rutherford

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 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)0.08965462
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07425474
deep (not shallow)0.06715613
reasonable (not deranged)0.06225496
disarming (not creepy)0.05545482
nerd (not jock)0.05535497
altruistic (not selfish)0.04945476
genius (not dunce)0.04925555
lenient (not strict)0.04725580
mature (not juvenile)0.04174146
orderly (not chaotic)0.04085552
intimate (not formal)0.03775589
gracious (not feisty)0.03735462
obedient (not rebellious)0.0335574
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03215468
stylish (not slovenly)0.02845583
loyal (not traitorous)0.02835673
tame (not wild)0.02724188
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0264269
social (not reclusive)0.02435477
indulgent (not sober)0.01945459
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01935473
bossy (not meek)0.01435490
feminine (not masculine)0.01395693
emotional (not logical)0.0135666
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00924274
scientific (not artistic)0.00894376
conventional (not creative)0.00615683
blissful (not haunted)0.00584148
frugal (not lavish)0.00565458
spiritual (not skeptical)0.00475656
stinky (not fresh)0.00445474
beta (not alpha)0.00375461
awkward (not charming)0.00295677
arcane (not mainstream)0.00245476
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00195450

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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