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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
87.45Randle Patrick McMurphy
70.1Nurse Mildred Ratched
61.2'Chief' Bromden
50.55Billy Bibbit
33.95Charlie Cheswick
24.15Dale Harding

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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 13
2 It's bad 16
3 It's okay 306
4 It's good 1619
5 It's my favorite 272

This gives it an average score of 3.95 / 5. Making it 150th 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 4.0
Female 3.93

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
arcane (not mainstream)0.09582323
deep (not shallow)0.08422353
masculine (not feminine)0.08232383
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.07252315
rebellious (not obedient)0.06272338
logical (not emotional)0.05722370
lenient (not strict)0.0532356
low-tech (not high-tech)0.05251661
haunted (not blissful)0.04831636
genius (not dunce)0.04612348
creative (not conventional)0.04552373
altruistic (not selfish)0.03882319
indulgent (not sober)0.03722312
alpha (not beta)0.03662311
charming (not awkward)0.03512372
intimate (not formal)0.02572338
artistic (not scientific)0.021697
outlaw (not sheriff)0.01942312
wild (not tame)0.01751647
disarming (not creepy)0.01662324
traitorous (not loyal)0.01592375
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01561660
reclusive (not social)0.01552316
stinky (not fresh)0.01482319
mature (not juvenile)0.01351622
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01082308
nerd (not jock)0.012326
meek (not bossy)0.012327
angelic (not demonic)0.00932312
deranged (not reasonable)0.00762332
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00712361
orderly (not chaotic)0.00642348
nurturing (not poisonous)0.00432315
frugal (not lavish)0.00252314
feisty (not gracious)0.00232314
slovenly (not stylish)0.0022333

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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