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West Side Story characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of West Side Story. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What West Side Story 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
84.65Maria
79.4Tony
63.95Anita
53.85Riff
29.2Lieutenant Schrank

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 West Side Story?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 30
2 It's bad 43
3 It's okay 828
4 It's good 2050
5 It's my favorite 327

This gives it an average score of 3.79 / 5. Making it 260th 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 3.78
Female 3.79

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)0.11193424
deep (not shallow)0.10033522
genuine (not sarcastic)0.09492676
nerd (not jock)0.08663444
angelic (not demonic)0.0773421
reasonable (not deranged)0.06863456
altruistic (not selfish)0.06423422
loyal (not traitorous)0.06293536
disarming (not creepy)0.0533434
sheriff (not outlaw)0.05063422
orderly (not chaotic)0.04933450
obedient (not rebellious)0.04733494
genius (not dunce)0.04663456
social (not reclusive)0.04223427
artistic (not scientific)0.03922725
blissful (not haunted)0.03762595
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.03583427
frugal (not lavish)0.03523419
spiritual (not skeptical)0.03163523
tame (not wild)0.02772618
gracious (not feisty)0.02693423
mature (not juvenile)0.0192594
intimate (not formal)0.01613501
masculine (not feminine)0.01593559
stylish (not slovenly)0.01543500
arcane (not mainstream)0.01523432
creative (not conventional)0.01483542
charming (not awkward)0.01473546
indulgent (not sober)0.00963416
strict (not lenient)0.00793484
fresh (not stinky)0.00763423
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00583414
alpha (not beta)0.00443421
emotional (not logical)0.00193539
meek (not bossy)0.00193447
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02676

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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