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Penny Arcade characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Penny Arcade. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Penny Arcade 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 2 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
65.7Tycho Brahe
65.45Jonathan 'Gabe' Gabriel

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 Penny Arcade?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 103
2 It's bad 90
3 It's okay 541
4 It's good 507
5 It's my favorite 69

This gives it an average score of 3.27 / 5. Making it 364th 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 3.47
Female 3.06

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)0.22911402
slovenly (not stylish)0.1761401
masculine (not feminine)0.15671422
nurturing (not poisonous)0.14251403
tame (not wild)0.11711094
arcane (not mainstream)0.11051400
high-tech (not low-tech)0.10671089
disarming (not creepy)0.10641400
beta (not alpha)0.10611398
skeptical (not spiritual)0.10171420
angelic (not demonic)0.10141396
genius (not dunce)0.10131416
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.09321403
reasonable (not deranged)0.09261404
scientific (not artistic)0.09221115
stinky (not fresh)0.08581399
indulgent (not sober)0.08581399
meek (not bossy)0.08561406
gracious (not feisty)0.08371400
altruistic (not selfish)0.0761400
sheriff (not outlaw)0.07261396
loyal (not traitorous)0.0711423
logical (not emotional)0.06851415
orderly (not chaotic)0.06451416
obedient (not rebellious)0.06141397
reclusive (not social)0.05881402
awkward (not charming)0.05821420
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05271097
frugal (not lavish)0.04811391
lenient (not strict)0.03531425
haunted (not blissful)0.03421092
conventional (not creative)0.03381424
intimate (not formal)0.03231398
deep (not shallow)0.0221403
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01681398
mature (not juvenile)0.01421096

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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