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SpongeBob SquarePants characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of SpongeBob SquarePants. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What SpongeBob SquarePants 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
86.2SpongeBob SquarePants
53.0Patrick Star
52.65Mr. Krabs
47.35Sandy Cheeks
44.55Squidward Tentacles

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 SpongeBob SquarePants?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 16
2 It's bad 63
3 It's okay 1209
4 It's good 2503
5 It's my favorite 485

This gives it an average score of 3.79 / 5. Making it 262nd 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 3.85
Female 3.77

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
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.06554725
meek (not bossy)0.05884786
masculine (not feminine)0.05294867
outlaw (not sheriff)0.05094743
loyal (not traitorous)0.03974834
nerd (not jock)0.03834785
lenient (not strict)0.03494874
intimate (not formal)0.03394743
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02774735
emotional (not logical)0.02674835
arcane (not mainstream)0.02644823
juvenile (not mature)0.02594782
altruistic (not selfish)0.02534744
indulgent (not sober)0.02354746
awkward (not charming)0.01894796
deep (not shallow)0.01764785
reclusive (not social)0.01714744
nurturing (not poisonous)0.01584740
creepy (not disarming)0.01584820
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01484754
rebellious (not obedient)0.01394748
haunted (not blissful)0.01384741
deranged (not reasonable)0.01364853
artistic (not scientific)0.01314793
frugal (not lavish)0.01134719
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01094744
wild (not tame)0.01044783
chaotic (not orderly)0.00984756
demonic (not angelic)0.00834746
sarcastic (not genuine)0.0084742
gracious (not feisty)0.00684741
slovenly (not stylish)0.00634745
dunce (not genius)0.00564752
stinky (not fresh)0.00444746
alpha (not beta)0.00324737
creative (not conventional)0.00024793

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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