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Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Buffy the Vampire Slayer 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
95.05Buffy Summers
65.35Willow Rosenberg
63.8Rupert Giles
62.0Angel
46.85Xander Harris
43.55Cordelia Chase

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 Buffy the Vampire Slayer?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 16
2 It's bad 23
3 It's okay 448
4 It's good 1550
5 It's my favorite 771

This gives it an average score of 4.08 / 5. Making it 64th 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 3.98
Female 4.1

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.10253065
nerd (not jock)0.09473084
haunted (not blissful)0.06812564
disarming (not creepy)0.06563076
low-tech (not high-tech)0.06332595
angelic (not demonic)0.05963063
intimate (not formal)0.05813096
deep (not shallow)0.05543122
altruistic (not selfish)0.05443062
genius (not dunce)0.05323093
tame (not wild)0.04412584
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.0433048
beta (not alpha)0.04263057
arcane (not mainstream)0.04253076
indulgent (not sober)0.04193066
feminine (not masculine)0.0413152
artistic (not scientific)0.03982651
mature (not juvenile)0.03762533
loyal (not traitorous)0.03493140
lenient (not strict)0.03363125
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03233064
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02793070
reasonable (not deranged)0.02643095
stinky (not fresh)0.02523069
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02482593
meek (not bossy)0.02443087
creative (not conventional)0.02323153
obedient (not rebellious)0.02233106
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01293133
feisty (not gracious)0.01093067
orderly (not chaotic)0.00973096
emotional (not logical)0.0093130
frugal (not lavish)0.00883054
awkward (not charming)0.00813150
slovenly (not stylish)0.00483099
social (not reclusive)0.00093065

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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