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Shadow and Bone characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Shadow and Bone. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Shadow and Bone 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
89.95Alina Starkov
88.25Kaz Brekker
76.8General Kirigan
75.65Inej Ghafa
63.4Jesper Fahey
46.35Malyen Oretsev

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 Shadow and Bone?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 12
2 It's bad 30
3 It's okay 572
4 It's good 2118
5 It's my favorite 743

This gives it an average score of 4.02 / 5. Making it 96th 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 3.88
Female 4.03

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)0.0683916
obedient (not rebellious)0.05733888
awkward (not charming)0.04333930
reclusive (not social)0.03713884
sarcastic (not genuine)0.03593885
tame (not wild)0.03493923
mature (not juvenile)0.03143919
fresh (not stinky)0.03023883
beta (not alpha)0.03023874
genius (not dunce)0.02993894
disarming (not creepy)0.02813899
angelic (not demonic)0.02373887
meek (not bossy)0.02263918
lavish (not frugal)0.02243869
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02163878
feminine (not masculine)0.0213941
formal (not intimate)0.01833883
reasonable (not deranged)0.01823934
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01643897
altruistic (not selfish)0.01513875
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01423883
stylish (not slovenly)0.01373883
loyal (not traitorous)0.01323909
sober (not indulgent)0.01273882
mainstream (not arcane)0.01213890
nurturing (not poisonous)0.01173880
logical (not emotional)0.01173908
gracious (not feisty)0.01073879
scientific (not artistic)0.01053929
blissful (not haunted)0.00893886
deep (not shallow)0.00733915
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00513880
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00373869
lenient (not strict)0.00343940
conventional (not creative)0.00153922
orderly (not chaotic)0.00013893

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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