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The Notebook 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 Notebook. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Notebook 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
86.35Allison Hamilton
81.3Noah Calhoun
26.3Lon Hammond, Jr.

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 26
2 It's bad 80
3 It's okay 1159
4 It's good 3983
5 It's my favorite 1132

This gives it an average score of 3.96 / 5. Making it 148th 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 3.77
Female 3.97

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
feminine (not masculine)0.13836544
social (not reclusive)0.10646362
blissful (not haunted)0.09135252
jock (not nerd)0.09086417
emotional (not logical)0.09046483
angelic (not demonic)0.08186351
fresh (not stinky)0.07996353
spiritual (not skeptical)0.06626454
stylish (not slovenly)0.06276396
mainstream (not arcane)0.06016363
charming (not awkward)0.05636524
lavish (not frugal)0.05556320
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04996363
intimate (not formal)0.0496394
loyal (not traitorous)0.04836493
disarming (not creepy)0.04566381
mature (not juvenile)0.04515236
lenient (not strict)0.03886509
altruistic (not selfish)0.03786356
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03695307
deep (not shallow)0.03066457
nurturing (not poisonous)0.02966353
wild (not tame)0.0255322
bossy (not meek)0.02316409
conventional (not creative)0.01996526
alpha (not beta)0.01946344
reasonable (not deranged)0.01356423
dunce (not genius)0.01146424
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01146321
orderly (not chaotic)0.01056434
artistic (not scientific)0.01015438
indulgent (not sober)0.00796346
sheriff (not outlaw)0.00736341
obedient (not rebellious)0.00646391
gracious (not feisty)0.00336355
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00135289

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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