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The Lion King 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 Lion King. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Lion King 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
91.9Simba
74.9Mufasa
61.75Nala
60.25Scar
54.65Timon
54.05Pumbaa

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 Lion King?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 15
2 It's bad 47
3 It's okay 2293
4 It's good 7955
5 It's my favorite 1437

This gives it an average score of 3.92 / 5. Making it 180th 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 3.9
Female 3.92

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
loyal (not traitorous)0.098912597
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07812195
altruistic (not selfish)0.074412202
disarming (not creepy)0.057812272
reasonable (not deranged)0.051312380
deep (not shallow)0.047512505
fresh (not stinky)0.047312211
angelic (not demonic)0.044612190
genuine (not sarcastic)0.04069468
spiritual (not skeptical)0.037412507
sheriff (not outlaw)0.036812195
charming (not awkward)0.034312626
emotional (not logical)0.032412582
blissful (not haunted)0.03179263
orderly (not chaotic)0.027712329
obedient (not rebellious)0.022512379
social (not reclusive)0.021812215
indulgent (not sober)0.020912192
gracious (not feisty)0.01912196
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.018712210
tame (not wild)0.01819398
genius (not dunce)0.017712332
mainstream (not arcane)0.017112244
intimate (not formal)0.017112402
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01619454
mature (not juvenile)0.01589224
feminine (not masculine)0.015312698
meek (not bossy)0.015212303
nerd (not jock)0.012212317
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.011812165
alpha (not beta)0.011712182
scientific (not artistic)0.01169708
lenient (not strict)0.008512504
creative (not conventional)0.008312633
lavish (not frugal)0.003312154
slovenly (not stylish)0.001312378

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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