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Top Gun: Maverick characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Top Gun: Maverick. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Top Gun: Maverick 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
92.05Pete Mitchell
70.25Bradley Bradshaw
44.1Penelope Benjamin

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 Top Gun: Maverick?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 28
2 It's bad 57
3 It's okay 1290
4 It's good 5414
5 It's my favorite 959

This gives it an average score of 3.93 / 5. Making it 164th 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 3.94

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
loyal (not traitorous)0.07368024
mature (not juvenile)0.06078107
disarming (not creepy)0.05798019
obedient (not rebellious)0.0548015
angelic (not demonic)0.04858020
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04638007
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04558015
genius (not dunce)0.04388024
reasonable (not deranged)0.04128109
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03998017
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03978020
orderly (not chaotic)0.03488027
alpha (not beta)0.03327996
scientific (not artistic)0.03168111
blissful (not haunted)0.03088012
stylish (not slovenly)0.02928008
charming (not awkward)0.02868114
logical (not emotional)0.02838024
fresh (not stinky)0.02678021
strict (not lenient)0.02658114
mainstream (not arcane)0.02658006
bossy (not meek)0.02498101
conventional (not creative)0.02488121
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02197989
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02178000
altruistic (not selfish)0.0218015
social (not reclusive)0.02088013
feisty (not gracious)0.01368012
deep (not shallow)0.01268106
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01088007
formal (not intimate)0.01048012
sober (not indulgent)0.00848009
feminine (not masculine)0.00838106
tame (not wild)0.00838103
lavish (not frugal)0.00587996
nerd (not jock)0.00038105

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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