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Bones characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Bones. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Bones 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
92.3Temperance Brennan
81.4Seeley Booth
67.15Camille Saroyan
63.1Jack Hodgins
59.0Angela Montenegro

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 Bones?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 27
2 It's bad 26
3 It's okay 945
4 It's good 3502
5 It's my favorite 1071

This gives it an average score of 4.0 / 5. Making it 112th 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 3.83
Female 4.02

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)0.07425817
mature (not juvenile)0.07223028
bossy (not meek)0.06025832
loyal (not traitorous)0.05825966
feminine (not masculine)0.05725981
angelic (not demonic)0.0565790
obedient (not rebellious)0.05375795
sheriff (not outlaw)0.05255792
genius (not dunce)0.05245939
scientific (not artistic)0.05073290
nerd (not jock)0.05065825
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04945928
disarming (not creepy)0.04825821
mainstream (not arcane)0.04555802
reasonable (not deranged)0.0435849
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03893119
strict (not lenient)0.03825996
awkward (not charming)0.03825965
fresh (not stinky)0.03725803
alpha (not beta)0.02565810
sober (not indulgent)0.02445794
blissful (not haunted)0.02433117
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02413106
altruistic (not selfish)0.02045812
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01755783
intimate (not formal)0.01665804
feisty (not gracious)0.01665804
deep (not shallow)0.01565820
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01525798
stylish (not slovenly)0.01485799
orderly (not chaotic)0.01265956
wild (not tame)0.01173156
logical (not emotional)0.01065949
social (not reclusive)0.00985806
frugal (not lavish)0.00385787
creative (not conventional)0.00065968

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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