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Arrested Development characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Arrested Development. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Arrested Development 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 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
84.9Michael Bluth
68.1Lucille Bluth
59.15Lindsay Bluth Funke
56.05Maeby Funke
55.9George Bluth, Sr.
51.45George Michael Bluth
46.25George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth
38.75Buster Bluth
29.6Oscar Bluth
28.05Tobias Funke

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 Arrested Development?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 11
2 It's bad 14
3 It's okay 450
4 It's good 2688
5 It's my favorite 803

This gives it an average score of 4.07 / 5. Making it 69th 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 4.05
Female 4.08

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
genius (not dunce)0.06584191
arcane (not mainstream)0.05864186
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0444264
intimate (not formal)0.0424202
nerd (not jock)0.04094200
disarming (not creepy)0.03984194
creative (not conventional)0.03884297
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.03754166
logical (not emotional)0.03324244
lenient (not strict)0.03164285
wild (not tame)0.02323712
deep (not shallow)0.02274240
indulgent (not sober)0.02034166
rebellious (not obedient)0.024201
masculine (not feminine)0.0194319
juvenile (not mature)0.01453691
nurturing (not poisonous)0.01394173
low-tech (not high-tech)0.0133713
artistic (not scientific)0.01033810
beta (not alpha)0.00994171
stylish (not slovenly)0.00974202
charming (not awkward)0.00944291
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00874170
traitorous (not loyal)0.00744286
lavish (not frugal)0.00724168
reasonable (not deranged)0.00654225
angelic (not demonic)0.00634167
chaotic (not orderly)0.00624231
fresh (not stinky)0.00544172
feisty (not gracious)0.00524166
sarcastic (not genuine)0.00483712
outlaw (not sheriff)0.00484167
social (not reclusive)0.00464174
meek (not bossy)0.00284199
altruistic (not selfish)0.0024169
haunted (not blissful)0.00183674

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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