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The Big Bang Theory characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Big Bang Theory. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Big Bang Theory 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
86.9Sheldon Cooper
77.15Penny
73.15Leonard Hofstadter
63.05Amy Farrah Fowler
52.6Raj Koothrappali
49.5Bernadette Rostenkowski
46.65Howard Wolowitz
25.45Mary Cooper
17.2Leslie Winkle
16.9Stuart Bloom

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 The Big Bang Theory?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 112
2 It's bad 424
3 It's okay 3187
4 It's good 5579
5 It's my favorite 1224

This gives it an average score of 3.7 / 5. Making it 309th 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 3.58
Female 3.73

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
sheriff (not outlaw)0.09810963
fresh (not stinky)0.090110980
blissful (not haunted)0.0789391
strict (not lenient)0.074511251
alpha (not beta)0.074210958
mainstream (not arcane)0.072710999
scientific (not artistic)0.07029715
genius (not dunce)0.0711104
bossy (not meek)0.068611068
sober (not indulgent)0.06610968
feminine (not masculine)0.053411332
orderly (not chaotic)0.052511096
mature (not juvenile)0.05139366
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04811159
charming (not awkward)0.047911278
loyal (not traitorous)0.046711215
conventional (not creative)0.042911278
reasonable (not deranged)0.040111117
obedient (not rebellious)0.038911051
jock (not nerd)0.033911090
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03259469
logical (not emotional)0.029511214
lavish (not frugal)0.027110943
sarcastic (not genuine)0.02689493
social (not reclusive)0.026410978
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.023310946
stylish (not slovenly)0.022911057
disarming (not creepy)0.022111017
deep (not shallow)0.016211162
formal (not intimate)0.015711060
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.015510983
angelic (not demonic)0.011410971
gracious (not feisty)0.010410975
wild (not tame)0.00739527
altruistic (not selfish)0.006510985
nurturing (not poisonous)0.000110986

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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