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Lord of the Rings

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of Lord of the Rings.

Characters

The dataset has 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
93.7Gandalf
89.4Aragorn
85.3Legolas
84.0Frodo Baggins
84.0Samwise Gamgee
74.1Gollum
72.2Gimli
65.9Boromir
58.7Merry Brandybuck
58.6Pippin Took

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 13 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 19
2 It's bad 32
3 It's okay 697
4 It's good 3105
5 It's my favorite 1759

This gives it an average score of 4.17 / 5. Making it 28th out of the 342 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 4.23
Female 4.14

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below show 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)0.15846015
nurturing (not poisonous)0.11565970
loyal (not traitorous)0.07766180
altruistic (not selfish)0.07255978
reasonable (not deranged)0.07166054
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06694775
deep (not shallow)0.06296092
masculine (not feminine)0.06256215
angelic (not demonic)0.06115963
arcane (not mainstream)0.05855996
meek (not bossy)0.05766009
orderly (not chaotic)0.05586043
genius (not dunce)0.05196045
mature (not juvenile)0.04394586
disarming (not creepy)0.04366015
slovenly (not stylish)0.04236048
reclusive (not social)0.04065973
gracious (not feisty)0.03915967
tame (not wild)0.03634739
scientific (not artistic)0.03224893
frugal (not lavish)0.0315952
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03014771
beta (not alpha)0.02965960
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02865960
logical (not emotional)0.0266175
intimate (not formal)0.02586057
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02525953
indulgent (not sober)0.02245966
obedient (not rebellious)0.02166049
awkward (not charming)0.02056171
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01975978
creative (not conventional)0.01316171
lenient (not strict)0.00716129
spiritual (not skeptical)0.0036125
haunted (not blissful)0.0034676
stinky (not fresh)0.0025969

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).
  Updated: 15 February 2023
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