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The Wizard of Oz 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 Wizard of Oz. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Wizard of Oz 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
85.75Dorothy Gale
62.25The Wicked Witch of the West
50.75The Scarecrow
49.15The Tin Man
45.5The Cowardly Lion
41.7The Wizard of Oz

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 Wizard of Oz?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 62
2 It's bad 221
3 It's okay 4042
4 It's good 4593
5 It's my favorite 335

This gives it an average score of 3.53 / 5. Making it 345th 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 3.58
Female 3.52

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)0.11589700
altruistic (not selfish)0.08779697
genuine (not sarcastic)0.07348183
loyal (not traitorous)0.07269968
angelic (not demonic)0.079696
nerd (not jock)0.06719789
disarming (not creepy)0.05919746
deep (not shallow)0.05649880
reasonable (not deranged)0.05449825
mature (not juvenile)0.05068093
sheriff (not outlaw)0.04919682
gracious (not feisty)0.0489690
tame (not wild)0.04678154
blissful (not haunted)0.04268049
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04239896
obedient (not rebellious)0.04079793
emotional (not logical)0.03749963
artistic (not scientific)0.03428374
indulgent (not sober)0.03149688
lenient (not strict)0.03069946
fresh (not stinky)0.02899697
creative (not conventional)0.02839993
meek (not bossy)0.02589778
intimate (not formal)0.02539792
beta (not alpha)0.02389688
social (not reclusive)0.02249709
frugal (not lavish)0.02159684
orderly (not chaotic)0.02129816
low-tech (not high-tech)0.0168169
charming (not awkward)0.01589990
genius (not dunce)0.01019823
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.00839712
stylish (not slovenly)0.00599799
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00419661
arcane (not mainstream)0.00079733
feminine (not masculine)0.000110036

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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