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To Kill a Mockingbird characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of To Kill a Mockingbird. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What To Kill a Mockingbird 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 1 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
80.55Atticus Finch

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 To Kill a Mockingbird?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 9
2 It's bad 20
3 It's okay 492
4 It's good 1260
5 It's my favorite 175

This gives it an average score of 3.8 / 5. Making it 256th 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 3.85
Female 3.79

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
altruistic (not selfish)0.09892139
deep (not shallow)0.09612161
nurturing (not poisonous)0.09312142
sheriff (not outlaw)0.08682145
genuine (not sarcastic)0.08452147
nerd (not jock)0.07732163
genius (not dunce)0.07432147
reasonable (not deranged)0.0722180
angelic (not demonic)0.06792146
reclusive (not social)0.06492140
obedient (not rebellious)0.05882143
loyal (not traitorous)0.05752162
haunted (not blissful)0.04522140
tame (not wild)0.04462163
frugal (not lavish)0.04382141
strict (not lenient)0.04222184
slovenly (not stylish)0.042146
gracious (not feisty)0.03882145
orderly (not chaotic)0.03792148
spiritual (not skeptical)0.03192148
mature (not juvenile)0.0312161
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02522146
logical (not emotional)0.02472165
arcane (not mainstream)0.02372160
beta (not alpha)0.01832142
stinky (not fresh)0.01462144
intimate (not formal)0.00992146
disarming (not creepy)0.00972162
conventional (not creative)0.00912162
meek (not bossy)0.00742163
indulgent (not sober)0.00682141
masculine (not feminine)0.00622180
scientific (not artistic)0.00612166
charming (not awkward)0.00572164
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00252143
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.0012141

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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