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Normal People characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Normal People. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Normal People 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
74.75Marianne Sheridan
72.05Connell Waldron

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 Normal People?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 63
2 It's bad 54
3 It's okay 566
4 It's good 1582
5 It's my favorite 686

This gives it an average score of 3.94 / 5. Making it 158th 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 3.67
Female 3.97

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
deep (not shallow)0.15433037
nurturing (not poisonous)0.12452997
stylish (not slovenly)0.11292994
intimate (not formal)0.10252997
emotional (not logical)0.10073015
disarming (not creepy)0.09833008
low-tech (not high-tech)0.09052982
nerd (not jock)0.08823041
feminine (not masculine)0.08283052
mature (not juvenile)0.08033038
indulgent (not sober)0.07562992
artistic (not scientific)0.07333046
angelic (not demonic)0.07122999
altruistic (not selfish)0.06872995
genius (not dunce)0.06243009
lenient (not strict)0.05573053
creative (not conventional)0.04813050
loyal (not traitorous)0.04553016
obedient (not rebellious)0.02912996
haunted (not blissful)0.02692985
social (not reclusive)0.02372997
spiritual (not skeptical)0.02353011
arcane (not mainstream)0.01862999
orderly (not chaotic)0.01793007
tame (not wild)0.01773037
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01533000
gracious (not feisty)0.01492990
meek (not bossy)0.01423035
reasonable (not deranged)0.01323040
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01222998
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01122997
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01092981
fresh (not stinky)0.01032996
frugal (not lavish)0.00362993
awkward (not charming)0.00313056
alpha (not beta)0.00122991

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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