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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
83.6Randle Patrick McMurphy
83.1'Chief' Bromden
70.9Nurse Mildred Ratched
62.8Billy Bibbit
49.2Charlie Cheswick
39.5Dale 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 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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 10
2 It's bad 14
3 It's okay 253
4 It's good 1272
5 It's my favorite 207

This gives it an average score of 3.94 / 5. Making it 154th 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 3.99
Female 3.92

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)0.10651808
deep (not shallow)0.1061835
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.08111804
masculine (not feminine)0.0781863
rebellious (not obedient)0.0761827
haunted (not blissful)0.05791124
creative (not conventional)0.05741855
indulgent (not sober)0.05231802
genius (not dunce)0.04881830
logical (not emotional)0.04721854
alpha (not beta)0.0461801
lenient (not strict)0.04211838
genuine (not sarcastic)0.04111150
charming (not awkward)0.04051853
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03381149
outlaw (not sheriff)0.03161801
altruistic (not selfish)0.03151808
artistic (not scientific)0.02871178
intimate (not formal)0.02691827
disarming (not creepy)0.02641813
wild (not tame)0.02371133
traitorous (not loyal)0.02241859
deranged (not reasonable)0.01881818
frugal (not lavish)0.01811802
mature (not juvenile)0.01731105
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01451798
reclusive (not social)0.01291805
stylish (not slovenly)0.01251823
stinky (not fresh)0.01221804
feisty (not gracious)0.00681804
orderly (not chaotic)0.00631831
nurturing (not poisonous)0.00511804
bossy (not meek)0.0031812
demonic (not angelic)0.00291801
jock (not nerd)0.00091811
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00081844

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).
  Updated: 15 February 2023
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