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The Odyssey

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of The Odyssey.

Characters

The dataset has 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
86.4Odysseus
70.7Penelope
55.3Telemachus

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 35
2 It's bad 77
3 It's okay 961
4 It's good 1256
5 It's my favorite 97

This gives it an average score of 3.54 / 5. Making it 318th 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 3.76
Female 3.48

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
arcane (not mainstream)0.16592606
nerd (not jock)0.14812614
genius (not dunce)0.13252631
masculine (not feminine)0.1182664
deep (not shallow)0.10252627
reclusive (not social)0.06922598
logical (not emotional)0.0682658
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0611488
loyal (not traitorous)0.05982659
frugal (not lavish)0.05872589
nurturing (not poisonous)0.05682600
gracious (not feisty)0.05452597
reasonable (not deranged)0.05192612
low-tech (not high-tech)0.05021489
tame (not wild)0.04971486
skeptical (not spiritual)0.04912642
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.04842595
creative (not conventional)0.04562659
altruistic (not selfish)0.03942597
haunted (not blissful)0.03771465
stinky (not fresh)0.03462598
slovenly (not stylish)0.0342611
meek (not bossy)0.0332607
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.02732587
mature (not juvenile)0.02511453
formal (not intimate)0.02322617
disarming (not creepy)0.02262610
scientific (not artistic)0.02141532
angelic (not demonic)0.01782593
rebellious (not obedient)0.01592606
strict (not lenient)0.00962656
indulgent (not sober)0.00932596
awkward (not charming)0.00432652
chaotic (not orderly)0.00362631
alpha (not beta)0.00252596
outlaw (not sheriff)0.00142594

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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