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Nineteen Eighty-Four characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Nineteen Eighty-Four 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
71.2Winston Smith
68.4Julia
63.1O'Brien

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 Nineteen Eighty-Four?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 25
2 It's bad 38
3 It's okay 335
4 It's good 911
5 It's my favorite 150

This gives it an average score of 3.77 / 5. Making it 272nd 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 3.88
Female 3.71

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
arcane (not mainstream)0.12621610
skeptical (not spiritual)0.1181595
logical (not emotional)0.11471611
nerd (not jock)0.10791605
masculine (not feminine)0.07721619
meek (not bossy)0.07371604
genius (not dunce)0.07341600
deep (not shallow)0.07131608
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.06831598
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.06221597
frugal (not lavish)0.06071595
scientific (not artistic)0.05871611
slovenly (not stylish)0.05381594
reclusive (not social)0.05221595
gracious (not feisty)0.04841598
orderly (not chaotic)0.0431599
tame (not wild)0.0411604
haunted (not blissful)0.03941598
formal (not intimate)0.03621598
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03361594
creative (not conventional)0.02671613
stinky (not fresh)0.02581596
lenient (not strict)0.0231621
loyal (not traitorous)0.02181612
disarming (not creepy)0.02071610
selfish (not altruistic)0.0191596
indulgent (not sober)0.01661595
sarcastic (not genuine)0.01471597
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01391600
beta (not alpha)0.01351591
awkward (not charming)0.01291608
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01211594
rebellious (not obedient)0.01111599
angelic (not demonic)0.0091596
reasonable (not deranged)0.00371620
juvenile (not mature)0.00361604

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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