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The Silence of the Lambs

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of The Silence of the Lambs.

Characters

The dataset has 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
87.4Dr. Hannibal Lecter
87.2Clarice Starling
48.2Jack Crawford

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 13 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 Silence of the Lambs?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 7
2 It's bad 4
3 It's okay 264
4 It's good 1598
5 It's my favorite 427

This gives it an average score of 4.06 / 5. Making it 74th out of the 342 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 4.05
Female 4.06

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below show the correlation between a user's response to a specific self report item and their rating of this universe.

Item Correlation with rating n
deep (not shallow)0.07352492
nerd (not jock)0.06862443
arcane (not mainstream)0.06482424
reclusive (not social)0.06082422
altruistic (not selfish)0.04662425
mature (not juvenile)0.04461778
skeptical (not spiritual)0.04352490
meek (not bossy)0.04332441
haunted (not blissful)0.04011808
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.03852420
genius (not dunce)0.03392446
strict (not lenient)0.03192491
beta (not alpha)0.03132421
scientific (not artistic)0.02671906
creepy (not disarming)0.02662435
frugal (not lavish)0.02522418
outlaw (not sheriff)0.02362416
masculine (not feminine)0.02332533
loyal (not traitorous)0.02322514
creative (not conventional)0.02112513
tame (not wild)0.01521832
sarcastic (not genuine)0.01511855
intimate (not formal)0.01372468
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0112418
slovenly (not stylish)0.01082462
stinky (not fresh)0.00982423
orderly (not chaotic)0.00932457
logical (not emotional)0.00782504
demonic (not angelic)0.00782419
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00732412
awkward (not charming)0.00362515
deranged (not reasonable)0.00332454
gracious (not feisty)0.00322417
indulgent (not sober)0.00292415
rebellious (not obedient)0.00222459
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00041849

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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