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Sleepless in Seattle characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Sleepless in Seattle. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Sleepless in Seattle 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
78.9Sam Baldwin
78.75Annie Reed

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 Sleepless in Seattle?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 9
2 It's bad 26
3 It's okay 443
4 It's good 1086
5 It's my favorite 141

This gives it an average score of 3.78 / 5. Making it 268th 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 3.66
Female 3.79

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.19141832
reasonable (not deranged)0.14851846
angelic (not demonic)0.13561831
disarming (not creepy)0.12661834
sheriff (not outlaw)0.10791831
mature (not juvenile)0.10741847
genuine (not sarcastic)0.10571832
loyal (not traitorous)0.09931837
spiritual (not skeptical)0.09771831
blissful (not haunted)0.09471831
orderly (not chaotic)0.09091834
gracious (not feisty)0.07921827
feminine (not masculine)0.07771853
altruistic (not selfish)0.07561830
obedient (not rebellious)0.07561831
tame (not wild)0.0751848
charming (not awkward)0.06271852
stylish (not slovenly)0.05991829
fresh (not stinky)0.05851835
deep (not shallow)0.0571850
mainstream (not arcane)0.0561837
nerd (not jock)0.05481849
intimate (not formal)0.04991831
emotional (not logical)0.04851838
artistic (not scientific)0.04581854
lenient (not strict)0.04061853
meek (not bossy)0.03731848
social (not reclusive)0.03731827
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03321831
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03061830
beta (not alpha)0.02691828
genius (not dunce)0.02311830
creative (not conventional)0.02231850
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02171828
sober (not indulgent)0.0111829
lavish (not frugal)0.00231831

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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