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The Shawshank Redemption

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of The Shawshank Redemption.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
90.8Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
88.3Andy Dufresne
71.0Brooks Hatlen
61.0Samuel Norton
55.0Byron Hadley
47.4Heywood

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 13 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 Shawshank Redemption?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 6
2 It's bad 6
3 It's okay 209
4 It's good 2250
5 It's my favorite 731

This gives it an average score of 4.15 / 5. Making it 33rd out of the 342 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 4.21
Female 4.13

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below show the correlation between a user's response to a specific self report item and their rating of this universe.

Item Correlation with rating n
sheriff (not outlaw)0.08343264
angelic (not demonic)0.07743262
reasonable (not deranged)0.07613287
orderly (not chaotic)0.06623299
masculine (not feminine)0.06293367
genius (not dunce)0.05583304
scientific (not artistic)0.05322774
disarming (not creepy)0.04983286
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04863271
altruistic (not selfish)0.04333270
logical (not emotional)0.043354
slovenly (not stylish)0.03993315
gracious (not feisty)0.03983261
blissful (not haunted)0.03482678
mature (not juvenile)0.03232674
mainstream (not arcane)0.03213273
tame (not wild)0.03152692
conventional (not creative)0.02993359
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02962722
formal (not intimate)0.02933317
frugal (not lavish)0.02923260
obedient (not rebellious)0.02573309
loyal (not traitorous)0.02533360
deep (not shallow)0.02233331
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02223340
strict (not lenient)0.01533320
beta (not alpha)0.01493267
meek (not bossy)0.01393278
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01333261
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01093267
stinky (not fresh)0.00893262
reclusive (not social)0.00823272
sober (not indulgent)0.00683262
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00532724
nerd (not jock)0.00383283
awkward (not charming)0.00323357

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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