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The OA characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The OA. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The OA 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
93.3Prairie Johnson
73.2Hunter Aloysius Percy
67.35Homer
59.8Steve Winchell
51.95Buck Vu

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 The OA?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 17
2 It's bad 23
3 It's okay 398
4 It's good 1300
5 It's my favorite 457

This gives it an average score of 3.98 / 5. Making it 129th 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 3.97
Female 3.99

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)0.11372266
nerd (not jock)0.10972259
arcane (not mainstream)0.10852443
genuine (not sarcastic)0.10282229
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0952231
creative (not conventional)0.08772265
lenient (not strict)0.08682478
artistic (not scientific)0.07822261
emotional (not logical)0.06542445
indulgent (not sober)0.05882232
loyal (not traitorous)0.05682448
stinky (not fresh)0.05332236
frugal (not lavish)0.05222230
haunted (not blissful)0.05112232
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04792243
outlaw (not sheriff)0.04482235
disarming (not creepy)0.04322440
low-tech (not high-tech)0.04212230
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03782233
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03262231
altruistic (not selfish)0.032230
feisty (not gracious)0.032234
beta (not alpha)0.02592228
angelic (not demonic)0.02362233
intimate (not formal)0.02312228
reclusive (not social)0.02232233
rebellious (not obedient)0.02222231
wild (not tame)0.01472260
deranged (not reasonable)0.01452467
stylish (not slovenly)0.0122232
awkward (not charming)0.01182268
meek (not bossy)0.00972257
chaotic (not orderly)0.00942240
genius (not dunce)0.00612238
mature (not juvenile)0.00382259
feminine (not masculine)0.00252475

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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