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The Scarlet Letter characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

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

Notability Name
86.65Hester Prynne

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 The Scarlet Letter?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 14
2 It's bad 24
3 It's okay 278
4 It's good 249
5 It's my favorite 21

This gives it an average score of 3.41 / 5. Making it 353rd 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 3.45
Female 3.4

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
altruistic (not selfish)0.1286623
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0986622
nerd (not jock)0.0985628
loyal (not traitorous)0.0946632
deep (not shallow)0.0914629
angelic (not demonic)0.0896620
arcane (not mainstream)0.0835628
genius (not dunce)0.0754623
gracious (not feisty)0.0732623
fresh (not stinky)0.0706622
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0702624
tame (not wild)0.0667626
creative (not conventional)0.064632
disarming (not creepy)0.0635626
strict (not lenient)0.056635
reasonable (not deranged)0.0529630
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.0519619
low-tech (not high-tech)0.0502622
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.0468622
obedient (not rebellious)0.0435624
spiritual (not skeptical)0.0426624
charming (not awkward)0.0403631
beta (not alpha)0.0365623
stylish (not slovenly)0.035621
lavish (not frugal)0.034620
feminine (not masculine)0.0338632
sheriff (not outlaw)0.0201621
juvenile (not mature)0.0187626
logical (not emotional)0.0145632
blissful (not haunted)0.0123621
sober (not indulgent)0.0048620
social (not reclusive)0.0045623
scientific (not artistic)0.0032629
formal (not intimate)0.0027620
meek (not bossy)0.0012624
orderly (not chaotic)0.0002625

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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