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Portrait of a Lady on Fire characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Portrait of a Lady on Fire 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
84.0Heloise
71.35Marianne

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 Portrait of a Lady on Fire?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 9
2 It's bad 11
3 It's okay 230
4 It's good 1279
5 It's my favorite 563

This gives it an average score of 4.14 / 5. Making it 39th 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 4.08
Female 4.14

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
disarming (not creepy)0.09322543
arcane (not mainstream)0.08422538
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07262535
loyal (not traitorous)0.06082551
deep (not shallow)0.05672566
altruistic (not selfish)0.05262541
creative (not conventional)0.05192574
intimate (not formal)0.04582540
angelic (not demonic)0.04542538
artistic (not scientific)0.04512567
nerd (not jock)0.04092564
indulgent (not sober)0.03812539
masculine (not feminine)0.03662571
lenient (not strict)0.03452574
genius (not dunce)0.03122539
emotional (not logical)0.03082551
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02742545
reasonable (not deranged)0.02592570
haunted (not blissful)0.02532537
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02432534
chaotic (not orderly)0.02212545
feisty (not gracious)0.01532540
mature (not juvenile)0.01522565
charming (not awkward)0.01062568
beta (not alpha)0.00952536
stylish (not slovenly)0.00752539
frugal (not lavish)0.0072539
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00682537
obedient (not rebellious)0.00672538
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00312531
meek (not bossy)0.00292563
tame (not wild)0.00292568
fresh (not stinky)0.00212532
reclusive (not social)0.00182539
outlaw (not sheriff)0.00032537
sarcastic (not genuine)0.02540

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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