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The Perks of Being a Wallflower characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Perks of Being a Wallflower 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
76.9Charlie Kelmeckis
73.95Sam Button
70.6Patrick Stewart

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 The Perks of Being a Wallflower?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 10
2 It's bad 22
3 It's okay 635
4 It's good 4176
5 It's my favorite 2362

This gives it an average score of 4.23 / 5. Making it 12th 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 4.21
Female 4.23

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
outlaw (not sheriff)0.07117487
artistic (not scientific)0.06696350
chaotic (not orderly)0.06187618
lenient (not strict)0.05727705
emotional (not logical)0.05367685
rebellious (not obedient)0.05047566
reclusive (not social)0.04737515
sarcastic (not genuine)0.04716174
awkward (not charming)0.04717741
intimate (not formal)0.04377571
creative (not conventional)0.0397751
wild (not tame)0.03816187
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03767516
deranged (not reasonable)0.03737591
spiritual (not skeptical)0.03457674
altruistic (not selfish)0.03237512
stylish (not slovenly)0.03147576
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03086147
demonic (not angelic)0.02957490
haunted (not blissful)0.02826090
feisty (not gracious)0.02677505
arcane (not mainstream)0.02567507
meek (not bossy)0.02367576
nerd (not jock)0.02367565
deep (not shallow)0.02057639
loyal (not traitorous)0.01957690
creepy (not disarming)0.01557527
masculine (not feminine)0.01437758
dunce (not genius)0.01397604
beta (not alpha)0.01377496
poisonous (not nurturing)0.01137513
indulgent (not sober)0.01027500
fresh (not stinky)0.00927509
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00917453
mature (not juvenile)0.00766091
lavish (not frugal)0.00697486

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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