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Lord of the Rings characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Lord of the Rings. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Lord of the Rings 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 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
85.85Frodo Baggins
83.45Gandalf
83.4Aragorn
66.1Samwise Gamgee
66.0Legolas
64.6Gollum
51.7Gimli
49.2Pippin Took
48.6Boromir
41.05Merry Brandybuck

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 Lord of the Rings?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 29
2 It's bad 48
3 It's okay 949
4 It's good 4063
5 It's my favorite 2349

This gives it an average score of 4.16 / 5. Making it 27th 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 4.24
Female 4.13

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)0.17518020
nurturing (not poisonous)0.10047955
masculine (not feminine)0.08578238
arcane (not mainstream)0.07867989
reasonable (not deranged)0.07098059
deep (not shallow)0.0678103
genius (not dunce)0.06218053
altruistic (not selfish)0.06067965
loyal (not traitorous)0.05998190
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05696763
meek (not bossy)0.05688012
orderly (not chaotic)0.04998055
low-tech (not high-tech)0.04976760
reclusive (not social)0.04837964
disarming (not creepy)0.04778002
frugal (not lavish)0.04167934
angelic (not demonic)0.04127952
indulgent (not sober)0.04037955
beta (not alpha)0.04027940
mature (not juvenile)0.03976588
slovenly (not stylish)0.03718039
gracious (not feisty)0.03677953
haunted (not blissful)0.03426667
logical (not emotional)0.03228181
scientific (not artistic)0.0326920
awkward (not charming)0.03018197
creative (not conventional)0.02338194
tame (not wild)0.02266742
intimate (not formal)0.0228043
stinky (not fresh)0.027964
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01967946
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01797942
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01128134
obedient (not rebellious)0.00938037
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.00837970
lenient (not strict)0.00828159

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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