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A Series of Unfortunate Events characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What A Series of Unfortunate Events 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
86.4Violet Baudelaire
77.0Klaus Baudelaire
74.0Count Olaf

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 A Series of Unfortunate Events?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 12
2 It's bad 27
3 It's okay 804
4 It's good 3056
5 It's my favorite 730

This gives it an average score of 3.96 / 5. Making it 139th 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 3.91
Female 3.97

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
genius (not dunce)0.07645288
nerd (not jock)0.06515311
sober (not indulgent)0.04555256
tame (not wild)0.03755313
obedient (not rebellious)0.03315264
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03275260
gracious (not feisty)0.03095262
feminine (not masculine)0.02935348
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.0295237
altruistic (not selfish)0.02895262
angelic (not demonic)0.02795263
orderly (not chaotic)0.02355284
strict (not lenient)0.02275359
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02065254
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02055264
awkward (not charming)0.0175338
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01645279
creative (not conventional)0.01555341
stylish (not slovenly)0.01555259
nurturing (not poisonous)0.01485254
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01465260
bossy (not meek)0.01415317
disarming (not creepy)0.01345266
reasonable (not deranged)0.01295325
logical (not emotional)0.01215301
deep (not shallow)0.00735318
frugal (not lavish)0.00575242
mature (not juvenile)0.00445308
loyal (not traitorous)0.00295307
social (not reclusive)0.00295263
arcane (not mainstream)0.00275271
fresh (not stinky)0.00225262
beta (not alpha)0.0025241
haunted (not blissful)0.0025249
artistic (not scientific)0.0025337
formal (not intimate)0.00075255

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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