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Tropic Thunder characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Tropic Thunder. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Tropic Thunder 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
69.1Tugg Speedman
63.8Kirk Lazarus
33.65Jeff Portnoy

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 Tropic Thunder?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 16
2 It's bad 17
3 It's okay 380
4 It's good 1193
5 It's my favorite 146

This gives it an average score of 3.82 / 5. Making it 245th 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 3.88
Female 3.73

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
masculine (not feminine)0.12341826
alpha (not beta)0.05421786
logical (not emotional)0.04931822
lavish (not frugal)0.04771785
sarcastic (not genuine)0.04671100
scientific (not artistic)0.04261135
mature (not juvenile)0.04191078
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03581101
disarming (not creepy)0.02991789
lenient (not strict)0.02591822
reclusive (not social)0.02561791
bossy (not meek)0.02491792
genius (not dunce)0.02461813
arcane (not mainstream)0.02451791
intimate (not formal)0.02351788
feisty (not gracious)0.02261788
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02181815
nerd (not jock)0.02081789
selfish (not altruistic)0.021787
deranged (not reasonable)0.01881797
indulgent (not sober)0.01691786
rebellious (not obedient)0.01571786
stinky (not fresh)0.01551787
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01351787
demonic (not angelic)0.0111791
blissful (not haunted)0.00961105
creative (not conventional)0.00881820
charming (not awkward)0.00851819
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00711785
poisonous (not nurturing)0.00541788
chaotic (not orderly)0.00511817
slovenly (not stylish)0.0051784
wild (not tame)0.00431108
outlaw (not sheriff)0.0041786
traitorous (not loyal)0.00281822
deep (not shallow)0.00131791

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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