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A Tale of Two Cities characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of A Tale of Two Cities. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What A Tale of Two Cities 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
73.8Sydney Carton
60.45Charles Darnay
57.3Lucie Manette

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 A Tale of Two Cities?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 43
2 It's bad 54
3 It's okay 533
4 It's good 601
5 It's my favorite 95

This gives it an average score of 3.49 / 5. Making it 350th 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 3.53
Female 3.48

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)0.15681303
deep (not shallow)0.15441308
genius (not dunce)0.14081298
nurturing (not poisonous)0.12821294
tame (not wild)0.10471302
arcane (not mainstream)0.08591417
reclusive (not social)0.08381292
reasonable (not deranged)0.08221427
angelic (not demonic)0.07651299
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.0761291
disarming (not creepy)0.07421414
altruistic (not selfish)0.06681294
slovenly (not stylish)0.06671294
loyal (not traitorous)0.06581422
haunted (not blissful)0.06261294
low-tech (not high-tech)0.06191294
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05861295
strict (not lenient)0.05711423
mature (not juvenile)0.05341301
meek (not bossy)0.05221306
gracious (not feisty)0.0511297
sheriff (not outlaw)0.05011293
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.04251297
scientific (not artistic)0.04071302
awkward (not charming)0.03511309
stinky (not fresh)0.03391298
orderly (not chaotic)0.031299
spiritual (not skeptical)0.02841298
masculine (not feminine)0.02721428
beta (not alpha)0.02561291
frugal (not lavish)0.02481297
logical (not emotional)0.02321417
creative (not conventional)0.01971299
intimate (not formal)0.0171290
rebellious (not obedient)0.01191298
indulgent (not sober)0.00141297

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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