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The Odyssey 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 Odyssey. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Odyssey 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
90.9Odysseus
58.75Penelope
43.1Telemachus

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 42
2 It's bad 94
3 It's okay 1216
4 It's good 1801
5 It's my favorite 207

This gives it an average score of 3.61 / 5. Making it 338th 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 3.78
Female 3.56

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
nerd (not jock)0.16683651
arcane (not mainstream)0.14523635
masculine (not feminine)0.09143711
reclusive (not social)0.08933622
deep (not shallow)0.08383667
genius (not dunce)0.07973671
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.07183622
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06492517
low-tech (not high-tech)0.06442518
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06173625
frugal (not lavish)0.05913616
loyal (not traitorous)0.0533697
haunted (not blissful)0.04862493
gracious (not feisty)0.04743624
creative (not conventional)0.04743706
awkward (not charming)0.04643699
stinky (not fresh)0.04373626
logical (not emotional)0.04073697
skeptical (not spiritual)0.03833679
mature (not juvenile)0.0382489
slovenly (not stylish)0.03753637
artistic (not scientific)0.03362579
meek (not bossy)0.03233642
tame (not wild)0.02872520
altruistic (not selfish)0.0283623
reasonable (not deranged)0.02723646
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.02563618
angelic (not demonic)0.0253617
beta (not alpha)0.02383626
formal (not intimate)0.01663644
obedient (not rebellious)0.01193629
disarming (not creepy)0.01133633
sheriff (not outlaw)0.00833617
chaotic (not orderly)0.00533672
indulgent (not sober)0.00353621
lenient (not strict)0.00323702

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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