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10 Things I Hate About You characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of 10 Things I Hate About You. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What 10 Things I Hate About You 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
87.5Kat Stratford
84.35Patrick Verona
57.4Cameron James
50.5Bianca Stratford
29.65Walter Stratford
26.2Joey 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 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 10 Things I Hate About You?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 15
2 It's bad 23
3 It's okay 765
4 It's good 6184
5 It's my favorite 4036

This gives it an average score of 4.29 / 5. Making it 6th 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 3.99
Female 4.3

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
stylish (not slovenly)0.062611238
spiritual (not skeptical)0.060711337
feminine (not masculine)0.058411497
sarcastic (not genuine)0.04829776
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.047611203
fresh (not stinky)0.046711199
feisty (not gracious)0.042611181
wild (not tame)0.04039824
disarming (not creepy)0.039611227
bossy (not meek)0.035511292
loyal (not traitorous)0.033611393
outlaw (not sheriff)0.03111159
lenient (not strict)0.028111446
blissful (not haunted)0.0289691
mature (not juvenile)0.02589702
intimate (not formal)0.025611252
creative (not conventional)0.024511473
artistic (not scientific)0.02419991
chaotic (not orderly)0.02311299
lavish (not frugal)0.022911130
jock (not nerd)0.021311295
alpha (not beta)0.016111154
mainstream (not arcane)0.015711206
altruistic (not selfish)0.014911189
social (not reclusive)0.01411185
genius (not dunce)0.01311284
nurturing (not poisonous)0.012611187
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01169754
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01111110
reasonable (not deranged)0.010711337
indulgent (not sober)0.008611168
rebellious (not obedient)0.007711241
emotional (not logical)0.007311387
demonic (not angelic)0.004211192
charming (not awkward)0.00111452
deep (not shallow)0.000211358

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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