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Sense and Sensibility characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Sense and Sensibility. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Sense and Sensibility 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
70.6Marianne Dashwood
68.4Elinor Dashwood
59.95Colonel Brandon
50.0Edward Ferrars
34.5John Willoughby

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 Sense and Sensibility?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 21
2 It's bad 30
3 It's okay 771
4 It's good 2448
5 It's my favorite 467

This gives it an average score of 3.89 / 5. Making it 201st 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 3.77
Female 3.89

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)0.12484071
nurturing (not poisonous)0.12344045
angelic (not demonic)0.09054044
genuine (not sarcastic)0.08924045
disarming (not creepy)0.07084052
indulgent (not sober)0.06974047
low-tech (not high-tech)0.06624050
lenient (not strict)0.06064080
loyal (not traitorous)0.05694057
gracious (not feisty)0.05284037
beta (not alpha)0.05164045
sheriff (not outlaw)0.04944042
tame (not wild)0.0494075
reasonable (not deranged)0.04894081
feminine (not masculine)0.04894080
altruistic (not selfish)0.04714046
obedient (not rebellious)0.04314043
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.04184052
genius (not dunce)0.03944050
intimate (not formal)0.03664049
artistic (not scientific)0.03624087
deep (not shallow)0.03414075
spiritual (not skeptical)0.0294055
meek (not bossy)0.02824073
haunted (not blissful)0.02764043
emotional (not logical)0.02634054
orderly (not chaotic)0.02544050
mature (not juvenile)0.02514080
stinky (not fresh)0.02434048
arcane (not mainstream)0.02254048
reclusive (not social)0.02254045
creative (not conventional)0.01944082
awkward (not charming)0.01694083
frugal (not lavish)0.01544040
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01114039
stylish (not slovenly)0.00164047

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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