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The Princess Bride 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 Princess Bride. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Princess Bride 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
90.35Westley
83.1Buttercup
68.95Inigo Montoya
42.05Prince Humperdinck
30.3Vizzini

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 Princess Bride?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 30
2 It's bad 25
3 It's okay 623
4 It's good 4807
5 It's my favorite 1993

This gives it an average score of 4.16 / 5. Making it 26th 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 4.19
Female 4.16

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)0.13859600
nurturing (not poisonous)0.10959506
arcane (not mainstream)0.07469516
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.06889493
slovenly (not stylish)0.06779506
loyal (not traitorous)0.06769526
altruistic (not selfish)0.06089503
intimate (not formal)0.05959503
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05899512
creative (not conventional)0.05799610
frugal (not lavish)0.0579492
deep (not shallow)0.05419601
beta (not alpha)0.0489488
reclusive (not social)0.04449514
genius (not dunce)0.04339512
stinky (not fresh)0.04189505
masculine (not feminine)0.04099612
indulgent (not sober)0.03959503
meek (not bossy)0.03839604
haunted (not blissful)0.03699501
low-tech (not high-tech)0.0359499
gracious (not feisty)0.03229503
chaotic (not orderly)0.03219518
angelic (not demonic)0.03199494
lenient (not strict)0.03129625
disarming (not creepy)0.02969517
emotional (not logical)0.02949526
awkward (not charming)0.02929615
artistic (not scientific)0.02749603
reasonable (not deranged)0.02699615
tame (not wild)0.0259610
obedient (not rebellious)0.01699510
outlaw (not sheriff)0.0159507
spiritual (not skeptical)0.00679508
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00669508
mature (not juvenile)0.00529598

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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