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Pulp Fiction

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

Characters

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

Notability Name
83.4Jules Winnfield
77.7Mia Wallace
76.4Marsellus Wallace
72.6Vincent Vega
61.5Butch Coolidge
40.1Ringo

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 10
2 It's bad 21
3 It's okay 476
4 It's good 2215
5 It's my favorite 503

This gives it an average score of 3.99 / 5. Making it 124th 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 4.1
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 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
masculine (not feminine)0.09843425
genius (not dunce)0.07553340
scientific (not artistic)0.06912776
reasonable (not deranged)0.06443330
high-tech (not low-tech)0.04982697
slovenly (not stylish)0.04923336
skeptical (not spiritual)0.04423385
logical (not emotional)0.04243397
arcane (not mainstream)0.0423300
charming (not awkward)0.03883411
conventional (not creative)0.03693417
deep (not shallow)0.03633362
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03393295
meek (not bossy)0.03273317
demonic (not angelic)0.02953288
orderly (not chaotic)0.02733339
loyal (not traitorous)0.02493405
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.0243294
intimate (not formal)0.02363338
alpha (not beta)0.02343287
lenient (not strict)0.02233385
mature (not juvenile)0.02162629
gracious (not feisty)0.02113288
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0212699
disarming (not creepy)0.02053311
indulgent (not sober)0.01983291
fresh (not stinky)0.01923289
tame (not wild)0.01852684
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01763292
altruistic (not selfish)0.01743297
rebellious (not obedient)0.0163330
lavish (not frugal)0.01473279
nerd (not jock)0.01143320
reclusive (not social)0.00843292
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00653281
blissful (not haunted)0.0042649

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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