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Psycho characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Psycho. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Psycho 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
81.0Norman Bates
60.45Marion Crane
41.75Lila Crane

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 Psycho?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 46
2 It's bad 34
3 It's okay 747
4 It's good 1735
5 It's my favorite 266

This gives it an average score of 3.76 / 5. Making it 280th 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 3.83
Female 3.73

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
nerd (not jock)0.15672975
arcane (not mainstream)0.13022970
deep (not shallow)0.09052972
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06841614
masculine (not feminine)0.06113065
reclusive (not social)0.05762961
low-tech (not high-tech)0.05511601
meek (not bossy)0.0522980
haunted (not blissful)0.05111616
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0512962
logical (not emotional)0.04523029
stinky (not fresh)0.04442964
frugal (not lavish)0.04222955
gracious (not feisty)0.04112967
beta (not alpha)0.03932958
angelic (not demonic)0.0392963
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.03782958
tame (not wild)0.03711624
genius (not dunce)0.03483027
intimate (not formal)0.03312963
altruistic (not selfish)0.02572960
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02573027
outlaw (not sheriff)0.02342961
disarming (not creepy)0.02172972
creative (not conventional)0.01843051
deranged (not reasonable)0.01782988
awkward (not charming)0.01573047
loyal (not traitorous)0.01383048
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01272958
lenient (not strict)0.01013064
slovenly (not stylish)0.00552956
indulgent (not sober)0.00552959
obedient (not rebellious)0.00522958
scientific (not artistic)0.00291707
juvenile (not mature)0.00171597
chaotic (not orderly)0.00023039

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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