The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Boston Legal. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Boston Legal character are you?" test, click the link above to access it. This page aggregates the crowd sourced data that the quiz is built upon.
| Notability | Name |
|---|---|
| 86.3 | Alan Shore |
| 77.9 | Shirley Schmidt |
| 76.65 | Denny Crane |
To see how each character was rated by users, view their individual page.
As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate Boston Legal?". The distribution of their responses are below.
| # | Response | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's the worst | 34 |
| 2 | It's bad | 14 |
| 3 | It's okay | 222 |
| 4 | It's good | 751 |
| 5 | It's my favorite | 155 |
This gives it an average score of 3.83 / 5. Making it 238th 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 | 3.95 |
| Female | 3.74 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| nerd (not jock) | 0.1834 | 1198 |
| disarming (not creepy) | 0.164 | 1200 |
| indulgent (not sober) | 0.1419 | 1195 |
| deep (not shallow) | 0.123 | 1222 |
| masculine (not feminine) | 0.1228 | 1239 |
| scientific (not artistic) | 0.098 | 697 |
| mature (not juvenile) | 0.0937 | 624 |
| reclusive (not social) | 0.0927 | 1193 |
| haunted (not blissful) | 0.0867 | 655 |
| slovenly (not stylish) | 0.0862 | 1220 |
| tame (not wild) | 0.0855 | 658 |
| genius (not dunce) | 0.0854 | 1204 |
| reasonable (not deranged) | 0.0816 | 1198 |
| nurturing (not poisonous) | 0.0793 | 1190 |
| intimate (not formal) | 0.0779 | 1220 |
| angelic (not demonic) | 0.0764 | 1193 |
| logical (not emotional) | 0.0756 | 1233 |
| arcane (not mainstream) | 0.0755 | 1196 |
| orderly (not chaotic) | 0.0652 | 1206 |
| skeptical (not spiritual) | 0.0607 | 1233 |
| genuine (not sarcastic) | 0.0556 | 680 |
| lenient (not strict) | 0.0554 | 1213 |
| loyal (not traitorous) | 0.0547 | 1236 |
| sheriff (not outlaw) | 0.0481 | 1193 |
| altruistic (not selfish) | 0.0472 | 1192 |
| stinky (not fresh) | 0.0461 | 1196 |
| ivory-tower (not blue-collar) | 0.0418 | 1194 |
| stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous) | 0.0317 | 1196 |
| frugal (not lavish) | 0.023 | 1195 |
| obedient (not rebellious) | 0.0208 | 1218 |
| meek (not bossy) | 0.0177 | 1196 |
| feisty (not gracious) | 0.0148 | 1195 |
| conventional (not creative) | 0.0129 | 1237 |
| alpha (not beta) | 0.011 | 1198 |
| charming (not awkward) | 0.0097 | 1235 |
| low-tech (not high-tech) | 0.003 | 685 |
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: