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Breaking Bad characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Breaking Bad. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Breaking Bad 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
90.4Walter White
80.8Jesse Pinkman
73.3Gus Fring
64.2Saul Goodman
61.7Mike Ehrmantraut
54.75Hank Schrader
47.95Skyler White
37.8Jane Margolis
35.4Flynn White
23.4Marie Schrader

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 Breaking Bad?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 30
2 It's bad 44
3 It's okay 661
4 It's good 3508
5 It's my favorite 1676

This gives it an average score of 4.14 / 5. Making it 38th 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 4.26
Female 4.07

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
masculine (not feminine)0.11746327
skeptical (not spiritual)0.07276239
arcane (not mainstream)0.05376146
logical (not emotional)0.05346272
indulgent (not sober)0.04596120
nerd (not jock)0.04376173
meek (not bossy)0.04326160
genuine (not sarcastic)0.04045307
deep (not shallow)0.03856233
genius (not dunce)0.03576204
tame (not wild)0.03545312
gracious (not feisty)0.03346117
slovenly (not stylish)0.03226178
orderly (not chaotic)0.03156210
stinky (not fresh)0.03056121
disarming (not creepy)0.03046151
frugal (not lavish)0.02726109
angelic (not demonic)0.02696119
scientific (not artistic)0.02645433
reclusive (not social)0.02566122
reasonable (not deranged)0.02526190
lenient (not strict)0.02096279
nurturing (not poisonous)0.02066123
charming (not awkward)0.01946293
outlaw (not sheriff)0.01856119
loyal (not traitorous)0.01676280
conventional (not creative)0.01356303
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01176130
haunted (not blissful)0.01165241
intimate (not formal)0.01076175
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00765296
altruistic (not selfish)0.00496134
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00456106
juvenile (not mature)0.0045234
obedient (not rebellious)0.00196167
beta (not alpha)0.06111

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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