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Mulholland Drive characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Mulholland Drive. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Mulholland Drive 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 2 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
68.85Betty Elms
62.7Rita

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 Mulholland Drive?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 12
2 It's bad 13
3 It's okay 171
4 It's good 718
5 It's my favorite 317

This gives it an average score of 4.07 / 5. Making it 72nd 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 4.14
Female 4.02

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
haunted (not blissful)0.1141389
arcane (not mainstream)0.11131389
nerd (not jock)0.1071400
indulgent (not sober)0.08931386
beta (not alpha)0.06661384
deep (not shallow)0.05481406
awkward (not charming)0.05331399
lenient (not strict)0.0531405
stylish (not slovenly)0.05291385
outlaw (not sheriff)0.04661384
artistic (not scientific)0.04581401
meek (not bossy)0.04571399
deranged (not reasonable)0.04531403
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.04521389
selfish (not altruistic)0.03831385
traitorous (not loyal)0.03561389
reclusive (not social)0.03521387
frugal (not lavish)0.03241388
gracious (not feisty)0.03211385
rebellious (not obedient)0.0291387
demonic (not angelic)0.02671387
poisonous (not nurturing)0.0221388
masculine (not feminine)0.02171404
chaotic (not orderly)0.02111389
genius (not dunce)0.021388
tame (not wild)0.01991400
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01981390
stinky (not fresh)0.01731389
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01581385
low-tech (not high-tech)0.01041388
creepy (not disarming)0.00981385
intimate (not formal)0.00911386
sarcastic (not genuine)0.00841388
mature (not juvenile)0.00671403
creative (not conventional)0.00451401
emotional (not logical)0.00391389

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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