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Penny Arcade

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

Characters

The dataset has 2 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
61.7Jonathan 'Gabe' Gabriel
48.2Tycho Brahe

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 67
2 It's bad 46
3 It's okay 300
4 It's good 274
5 It's my favorite 35

This gives it an average score of 3.23 / 5. Making it 336th 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 3.47
Female 3.02

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
nerd (not jock)0.2691743
slovenly (not stylish)0.2137741
masculine (not feminine)0.1576763
nurturing (not poisonous)0.1515745
angelic (not demonic)0.1444738
beta (not alpha)0.1193742
indulgent (not sober)0.1088739
meek (not bossy)0.1054745
disarming (not creepy)0.1017741
reasonable (not deranged)0.099744
altruistic (not selfish)0.0938741
genius (not dunce)0.0933757
tame (not wild)0.0903437
stinky (not fresh)0.0878739
orderly (not chaotic)0.0872759
scientific (not artistic)0.078457
gracious (not feisty)0.0774739
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0731437
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.0707743
arcane (not mainstream)0.0691740
high-tech (not low-tech)0.0622431
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0614762
obedient (not rebellious)0.0599737
awkward (not charming)0.0579760
intimate (not formal)0.0575740
sheriff (not outlaw)0.0438737
logical (not emotional)0.0391761
lenient (not strict)0.0364765
reclusive (not social)0.0357741
loyal (not traitorous)0.0357764
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.0298738
deep (not shallow)0.0273744
haunted (not blissful)0.0259434
frugal (not lavish)0.0203737
mature (not juvenile)0.0084435
conventional (not creative)0.0023765

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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