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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
87.85Luke Skywalker
85.35Darth Vader
79.7Princess Leia
73.1Obi-Wan Kenobi
70.8Han Solo
42.5C-3PO

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 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 41
2 It's bad 76
3 It's okay 1519
4 It's good 5567
5 It's my favorite 2020

This gives it an average score of 4.02 / 5. Making it 95th 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 4.06
Female 4.01

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)0.08159836
nurturing (not poisonous)0.05879775
masculine (not feminine)0.053510112
disarming (not creepy)0.05189829
altruistic (not selfish)0.05129777
scientific (not artistic)0.05088278
deep (not shallow)0.04979971
loyal (not traitorous)0.048810061
reasonable (not deranged)0.04519886
genius (not dunce)0.03649873
angelic (not demonic)0.03219759
fresh (not stinky)0.02869778
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02788084
gracious (not feisty)0.02569772
alpha (not beta)0.02259750
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02159732
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02149770
orderly (not chaotic)0.01999877
haunted (not blissful)0.01597971
arcane (not mainstream)0.01579819
awkward (not charming)0.014610052
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01219753
intimate (not formal)0.01219900
mature (not juvenile)0.01197932
stylish (not slovenly)0.01079880
lenient (not strict)0.009210006
reclusive (not social)0.00819774
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0089976
creative (not conventional)0.006210068
meek (not bossy)0.00569834
obedient (not rebellious)0.00369887
tame (not wild)0.00248052
indulgent (not sober)0.00199756
frugal (not lavish)0.00049728
sarcastic (not genuine)0.00028099
emotional (not logical)0.000110044

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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