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The Shape of Water 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 Shape of Water. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Shape of Water 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
78.05Elisa Esposito
72.3The Amphibian Man

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 Shape of Water?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 11
2 It's bad 17
3 It's okay 243
4 It's good 841
5 It's my favorite 149

This gives it an average score of 3.87 / 5. Making it 211th 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 3.96
Female 3.85

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)0.20871632
arcane (not mainstream)0.15041621
haunted (not blissful)0.12681623
genuine (not sarcastic)0.11231625
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.1121618
reclusive (not social)0.10691622
creative (not conventional)0.10571642
outlaw (not sheriff)0.10271620
meek (not bossy)0.08941634
indulgent (not sober)0.0891620
stinky (not fresh)0.08531621
low-tech (not high-tech)0.08151618
artistic (not scientific)0.08121642
awkward (not charming)0.07961642
masculine (not feminine)0.06771636
dunce (not genius)0.06741626
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06651622
beta (not alpha)0.05821621
demonic (not angelic)0.05811620
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.05591620
lenient (not strict)0.04881640
slovenly (not stylish)0.04561623
frugal (not lavish)0.0451621
emotional (not logical)0.04381625
tame (not wild)0.04281632
deranged (not reasonable)0.03651629
altruistic (not selfish)0.03211622
intimate (not formal)0.02661622
rebellious (not obedient)0.02261616
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0221629
orderly (not chaotic)0.01671626
shallow (not deep)0.01081633
loyal (not traitorous)0.011626
gracious (not feisty)0.00871622
creepy (not disarming)0.00841622
juvenile (not mature)0.00171634

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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