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The Big Sick characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Big Sick. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Big Sick 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
72.65Kumail Nanjiani
67.45Emily Gardner

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 The Big Sick?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 7
2 It's bad 13
3 It's okay 172
4 It's good 703
5 It's my favorite 54

This gives it an average score of 3.83 / 5. Making it 242nd 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 3.88
Female 3.81

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)0.20061046
nerd (not jock)0.18221057
deep (not shallow)0.14711056
disarming (not creepy)0.11281048
genius (not dunce)0.1041051
altruistic (not selfish)0.08751047
reasonable (not deranged)0.08511056
gracious (not feisty)0.07741049
intimate (not formal)0.07721049
beta (not alpha)0.06961045
mature (not juvenile)0.06871056
angelic (not demonic)0.06531047
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06151050
indulgent (not sober)0.06141045
stinky (not fresh)0.06061049
loyal (not traitorous)0.05981051
obedient (not rebellious)0.05461048
arcane (not mainstream)0.05031048
tame (not wild)0.05021053
frugal (not lavish)0.04761049
masculine (not feminine)0.04731057
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0431047
awkward (not charming)0.04151056
low-tech (not high-tech)0.04011046
creative (not conventional)0.03951056
lenient (not strict)0.03861054
meek (not bossy)0.02221057
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01681048
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01661049
orderly (not chaotic)0.01481050
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01131045
social (not reclusive)0.00821050
logical (not emotional)0.00431052
artistic (not scientific)0.00421054
blissful (not haunted)0.00141049
slovenly (not stylish)0.00021046

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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