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Twin Peaks characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Twin Peaks. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Twin Peaks 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 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
88.8Dale Cooper
76.5Audrey Horne
63.15Leland Palmer
61.75Sheriff Truman
57.15Donna Hayward
51.65Shelly Johnson
46.95Benjamin Horne
44.75Bobby Briggs
44.15Josie Packard
41.8Norma Jennings
38.9Ed Hurley
36.9James Hurley
36.1Pete Martell
35.8Catherine Martell
30.95Lucy Moran

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 Twin Peaks?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 30
2 It's bad 22
3 It's okay 470
4 It's good 2089
5 It's my favorite 1330

This gives it an average score of 4.18 / 5. Making it 21st 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 4.29
Female 4.14

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
arcane (not mainstream)0.17694205
nerd (not jock)0.11984219
haunted (not blissful)0.09043744
creative (not conventional)0.08654342
outlaw (not sheriff)0.08574189
masculine (not feminine)0.08134345
genius (not dunce)0.06784269
reclusive (not social)0.06484196
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05943777
artistic (not scientific)0.05763902
stinky (not fresh)0.05744194
meek (not bossy)0.05644220
deep (not shallow)0.05514266
beta (not alpha)0.05274185
rebellious (not obedient)0.05084219
lenient (not strict)0.05044318
indulgent (not sober)0.04894187
altruistic (not selfish)0.04434190
low-tech (not high-tech)0.04283780
deranged (not reasonable)0.03824239
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03764192
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0374305
intimate (not formal)0.02994225
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02694185
awkward (not charming)0.02684340
chaotic (not orderly)0.02254272
emotional (not logical)0.01494313
gracious (not feisty)0.01454189
slovenly (not stylish)0.01014226
frugal (not lavish)0.00944181
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.00594197
disarming (not creepy)0.00484209
tame (not wild)0.00393783
loyal (not traitorous)0.00374325
demonic (not angelic)0.00144186
juvenile (not mature)0.00033746

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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