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10 Things I Hate About You

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of 10 Things I Hate About You.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
85.8Patrick Verona
84.5Kat Stratford
64.9Cameron James
59.4Bianca Stratford
42.2Walter Stratford
33.2Joey Donner

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 13 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 10 Things I Hate About You?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 10
2 It's bad 18
3 It's okay 580
4 It's good 4665
5 It's my favorite 3313

This gives it an average score of 4.31 / 5. Making it 7th out of the 342 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 3.97
Female 4.32

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below show the correlation between a user's response to a specific self report item and their rating of this universe.

Item Correlation with rating n
stylish (not slovenly)0.06658741
feminine (not masculine)0.06258959
spiritual (not skeptical)0.06198822
fresh (not stinky)0.05758695
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04328697
feisty (not gracious)0.04098682
sarcastic (not genuine)0.047274
blissful (not haunted)0.03637192
wild (not tame)0.03397300
disarming (not creepy)0.03388726
loyal (not traitorous)0.03228875
lenient (not strict)0.03188905
outlaw (not sheriff)0.02538667
mature (not juvenile)0.0247177
creative (not conventional)0.02188929
chaotic (not orderly)0.02158781
lavish (not frugal)0.028640
bossy (not meek)0.01998772
altruistic (not selfish)0.01848692
intimate (not formal)0.01838750
artistic (not scientific)0.01727453
jock (not nerd)0.01468774
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01418615
genius (not dunce)0.01268774
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01127260
alpha (not beta)0.01088662
social (not reclusive)0.00888686
deep (not shallow)0.00868832
nurturing (not poisonous)0.00838690
awkward (not charming)0.00728916
rebellious (not obedient)0.00698739
reasonable (not deranged)0.00668811
indulgent (not sober)0.00558670
mainstream (not arcane)0.0058706
emotional (not logical)0.00388869
angelic (not demonic)0.00268690

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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