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Pulp Fiction characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Pulp Fiction. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Pulp Fiction 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
78.75Mia Wallace
76.3Vincent Vega
73.0Jules Winnfield
56.75Marsellus Wallace
56.2Butch Coolidge
29.0Ringo

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 Pulp Fiction?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 12
2 It's bad 24
3 It's okay 560
4 It's good 2640
5 It's my favorite 608

This gives it an average score of 3.99 / 5. Making it 119th 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 4.11
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
masculine (not feminine)0.10354091
genius (not dunce)0.07843998
scientific (not artistic)0.07193439
reasonable (not deranged)0.06373986
high-tech (not low-tech)0.05223345
logical (not emotional)0.04854056
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0474044
charming (not awkward)0.04354075
conventional (not creative)0.04064079
arcane (not mainstream)0.03733949
slovenly (not stylish)0.03613982
orderly (not chaotic)0.03583995
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03493943
meek (not bossy)0.03423971
deep (not shallow)0.03264022
demonic (not angelic)0.02943936
gracious (not feisty)0.02793929
tame (not wild)0.02783338
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02463941
mature (not juvenile)0.02323285
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02273937
alpha (not beta)0.02163933
disarming (not creepy)0.02113959
intimate (not formal)0.02083986
loyal (not traitorous)0.01814060
lavish (not frugal)0.01723925
blissful (not haunted)0.01663298
lenient (not strict)0.01614047
fresh (not stinky)0.01353937
altruistic (not selfish)0.01293946
indulgent (not sober)0.01253938
rebellious (not obedient)0.0123978
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01193346
nerd (not jock)0.00463975
social (not reclusive)0.00313939
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00033927

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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