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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia 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
71.5Dennis Reynolds
69.6Frank Reynolds
62.35Charlie Kelly
59.65Mac
45.95Dee Reynolds

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 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 12
2 It's bad 20
3 It's okay 427
4 It's good 2872
5 It's my favorite 1418

This gives it an average score of 4.19 / 5. Making it 15th 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 4.27
Female 4.16

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
skeptical (not spiritual)0.08575199
masculine (not feminine)0.07635233
logical (not emotional)0.07585215
sarcastic (not genuine)0.06263197
indulgent (not sober)0.06164970
demonic (not angelic)0.05974965
arcane (not mainstream)0.05874990
outlaw (not sheriff)0.05154981
rebellious (not obedient)0.04145127
poisonous (not nurturing)0.04034982
haunted (not blissful)0.04023034
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03814972
stinky (not fresh)0.03814985
reclusive (not social)0.0364978
wild (not tame)0.03233064
selfish (not altruistic)0.03044979
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03033193
traitorous (not loyal)0.02945224
deranged (not reasonable)0.02845013
frugal (not lavish)0.0274974
meek (not bossy)0.02474997
lenient (not strict)0.02385084
slovenly (not stylish)0.02375138
feisty (not gracious)0.02054975
chaotic (not orderly)0.01795053
nerd (not jock)0.01784993
juvenile (not mature)0.01293046
scientific (not artistic)0.01083291
alpha (not beta)0.01064980
formal (not intimate)0.0075134
dunce (not genius)0.0055045
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.0054977
conventional (not creative)0.00425220
shallow (not deep)0.00345163
awkward (not charming)0.00125215
disarming (not creepy)0.00014991

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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