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Breaking Bad

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of Breaking Bad.

Characters

The dataset has 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
91.3Walter White
88.9Jesse Pinkman
82.5Mike Ehrmantraut
79.6Gus Fring
74.8Hank Schrader
73.8Saul Goodman
61.3Jane Margolis
55.4Skyler White
46.8Flynn White
27.9Marie 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 13 and 60 years of age).
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36%
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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 24
2 It's bad 35
3 It's okay 435
4 It's good 2488
5 It's my favorite 1207

This gives it an average score of 4.15 / 5. Making it 35th out of the 342 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 4.28
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 show 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)0.11294444
skeptical (not spiritual)0.07284373
deep (not shallow)0.05454368
arcane (not mainstream)0.05434298
tame (not wild)0.0473451
nerd (not jock)0.04514313
stinky (not fresh)0.04214274
meek (not bossy)0.04074301
gracious (not feisty)0.0394274
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03883462
indulgent (not sober)0.03854274
logical (not emotional)0.03854404
angelic (not demonic)0.0384274
slovenly (not stylish)0.03474334
frugal (not lavish)0.03414265
genius (not dunce)0.03224335
reclusive (not social)0.03054279
disarming (not creepy)0.02814306
juvenile (not mature)0.02783371
lenient (not strict)0.02674395
scientific (not artistic)0.02643548
charming (not awkward)0.02034411
orderly (not chaotic)0.01994338
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01963455
loyal (not traitorous)0.01934410
reasonable (not deranged)0.0184336
intimate (not formal)0.01724331
conventional (not creative)0.01534420
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0144279
haunted (not blissful)0.01153397
beta (not alpha)0.01084274
outlaw (not sheriff)0.01024276
obedient (not rebellious)0.00864319
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00774283
altruistic (not selfish)0.00774286
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00664269

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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