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The Martian 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 Martian. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Martian 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
90.55Mark Watney

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 Martian?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 8
2 It's bad 7
3 It's okay 192
4 It's good 1220
5 It's my favorite 200

This gives it an average score of 3.98 / 5. Making it 130th 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 4.04
Female 3.95

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
nerd (not jock)0.13031668
scientific (not artistic)0.10761326
genuine (not sarcastic)0.10551275
skeptical (not spiritual)0.09131706
altruistic (not selfish)0.0741653
stinky (not fresh)0.07251654
slovenly (not stylish)0.07121679
masculine (not feminine)0.07091725
tame (not wild)0.07041271
mature (not juvenile)0.06821242
genius (not dunce)0.06461678
meek (not bossy)0.06411666
frugal (not lavish)0.06121645
beta (not alpha)0.05791650
logical (not emotional)0.05741708
obedient (not rebellious)0.05561676
reclusive (not social)0.04711655
reasonable (not deranged)0.04631673
disarming (not creepy)0.04581657
loyal (not traitorous)0.04571713
awkward (not charming)0.04391719
orderly (not chaotic)0.04321684
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04141651
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04141654
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03911650
lenient (not strict)0.03561701
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03461650
angelic (not demonic)0.03311648
gracious (not feisty)0.03161655
indulgent (not sober)0.02721648
conventional (not creative)0.02641721
mainstream (not arcane)0.02631655
haunted (not blissful)0.02181251
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00921279
deep (not shallow)0.00391696
formal (not intimate)0.00081680

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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