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Battlestar Galactica

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

Characters

The dataset has 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
95.1William Adama
93.7Laura Roslin
90.6Number Six
84.8Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace
78.6Lee 'Apollo' Adama
76.2Saul Tigh
75.8Gaius Baltar
72.0Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii
68.4Karl 'Helo' Agathon
64.0Galen Tyrol
63.9Felix Gaeta
55.3Anastasia Dualla
53.1Samuel 'Longshot' Anders
34.1Cally Henderson
31.0Billy Keikeya

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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23%
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Rating

As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate Battlestar Galactica?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 29
2 It's bad 30
3 It's okay 311
4 It's good 1296
5 It's my favorite 422

This gives it an average score of 3.98 / 5. Making it 129th 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 4.04
Female 3.92

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
nerd (not jock)0.15442103
reasonable (not deranged)0.14042102
tame (not wild)0.12191271
nurturing (not poisonous)0.11272093
skeptical (not spiritual)0.10322224
genius (not dunce)0.10042132
reclusive (not social)0.09012096
disarming (not creepy)0.08832095
logical (not emotional)0.08552223
angelic (not demonic)0.08172089
orderly (not chaotic)0.07382133
slovenly (not stylish)0.07272184
mature (not juvenile)0.07251134
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06961348
sheriff (not outlaw)0.06952094
scientific (not artistic)0.06391397
deep (not shallow)0.06372191
loyal (not traitorous)0.06172226
high-tech (not low-tech)0.06041351
masculine (not feminine)0.05842233
stinky (not fresh)0.05072096
indulgent (not sober)0.0492092
beta (not alpha)0.04682094
obedient (not rebellious)0.04642182
altruistic (not selfish)0.04542090
gracious (not feisty)0.04312093
meek (not bossy)0.03392101
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.0332095
arcane (not mainstream)0.02952098
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02042092
frugal (not lavish)0.01882094
intimate (not formal)0.01712180
haunted (not blissful)0.01421262
conventional (not creative)0.01272230
lenient (not strict)0.00692143
awkward (not charming)0.00032232

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).
  Updated: 15 February 2023
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