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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
91.5Buffy Summers
83.8Rupert Giles
78.7Willow Rosenberg
76.5Angel
57.2Cordelia Chase
56.6Xander Harris

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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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 14
2 It's bad 16
3 It's okay 343
4 It's good 1166
5 It's my favorite 587

This gives it an average score of 4.08 / 5. Making it 61st 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 3.99
Female 4.09

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.11872281
nerd (not jock)0.10632293
disarming (not creepy)0.08182292
angelic (not demonic)0.06622281
genius (not dunce)0.06442303
indulgent (not sober)0.05932282
haunted (not blissful)0.05731780
intimate (not formal)0.05712313
tame (not wild)0.05581796
deep (not shallow)0.05352329
feminine (not masculine)0.04852356
loyal (not traitorous)0.04492347
arcane (not mainstream)0.04382290
altruistic (not selfish)0.04352280
low-tech (not high-tech)0.04271812
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0411814
reasonable (not deranged)0.03762305
beta (not alpha)0.03552275
artistic (not scientific)0.03381851
mature (not juvenile)0.03181742
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03162268
lenient (not strict)0.02552326
stinky (not fresh)0.02492284
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02132280
meek (not bossy)0.02092297
emotional (not logical)0.01972339
lavish (not frugal)0.01822272
creative (not conventional)0.01762355
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01662340
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01582285
orderly (not chaotic)0.01562303
obedient (not rebellious)0.01192321
feisty (not gracious)0.00822282
stylish (not slovenly)0.00522317
charming (not awkward)0.00082350
social (not reclusive)0.00082280

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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