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A Nightmare on Elm Street

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Characters

The dataset has 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
85.3Freddy Krueger
68.3Nancy Thompson
57.8Glen Lantz
42.2Marge Thompson
41.7Donald Thompson

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 A Nightmare on Elm Street?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 26
2 It's bad 26
3 It's okay 791
4 It's good 1569
5 It's my favorite 253

This gives it an average score of 3.75 / 5. Making it 269th 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 3.71
Female 3.76

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
haunted (not blissful)0.0961677
awkward (not charming)0.07842884
arcane (not mainstream)0.07682764
deranged (not reasonable)0.06772791
outlaw (not sheriff)0.06452747
high-tech (not low-tech)0.06211758
reclusive (not social)0.05882750
nerd (not jock)0.0562776
frugal (not lavish)0.05342742
creative (not conventional)0.05052890
spiritual (not skeptical)0.05022859
stinky (not fresh)0.0462753
meek (not bossy)0.04582778
lenient (not strict)0.04422821
beta (not alpha)0.0432747
chaotic (not orderly)0.03872783
rebellious (not obedient)0.03832826
indulgent (not sober)0.03642749
artistic (not scientific)0.03431818
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03432741
creepy (not disarming)0.03042771
demonic (not angelic)0.02852745
sarcastic (not genuine)0.02671762
loyal (not traitorous)0.02642882
juvenile (not mature)0.02461690
emotional (not logical)0.02382876
poisonous (not nurturing)0.01582746
deep (not shallow)0.01252859
intimate (not formal)0.01042831
feisty (not gracious)0.01032748
altruistic (not selfish)0.00632754
wild (not tame)0.00431705
dunce (not genius)0.00362779
masculine (not feminine)0.00352905
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00242756
stylish (not slovenly)0.00072834

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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