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When Harry Met Sally... characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of When Harry Met Sally.... The SWCPQ can operate as a "What When Harry Met Sally... 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 2 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
81.25Sally Albright
68.45Harry Burns

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 When Harry Met Sally...?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 19
2 It's bad 27
3 It's okay 589
4 It's good 1785
5 It's my favorite 496

This gives it an average score of 3.93 / 5. Making it 166th 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 3.82
Female 3.95

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.13323077
disarming (not creepy)0.1133084
nerd (not jock)0.10083110
angelic (not demonic)0.09653077
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0783077
obedient (not rebellious)0.07183080
deep (not shallow)0.06813108
altruistic (not selfish)0.0673082
intimate (not formal)0.06033079
meek (not bossy)0.06023104
lenient (not strict)0.05493116
indulgent (not sober)0.05433078
tame (not wild)0.04793106
loyal (not traitorous)0.04763091
beta (not alpha)0.04673075
artistic (not scientific)0.04093111
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03933081
reasonable (not deranged)0.03773113
emotional (not logical)0.03773092
social (not reclusive)0.03653084
genius (not dunce)0.03633085
mature (not juvenile)0.03493105
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0343086
creative (not conventional)0.03313115
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.03163077
feminine (not masculine)0.02873113
blissful (not haunted)0.02683081
stylish (not slovenly)0.01953081
stinky (not fresh)0.01893076
gracious (not feisty)0.01843080
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01633078
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01623082
frugal (not lavish)0.00723075
mainstream (not arcane)0.00343082
awkward (not charming)0.0023117
orderly (not chaotic)0.00093085

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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