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Baywatch characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Baywatch. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Baywatch 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
76.9Mitch Buchannon
63.65C.J. Parker
57.55Stephanie Holden
40.8Michael 'Newmie' Newman
39.45Hobie Buchannon
36.85Garner Ellerbee

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 Baywatch?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 371
2 It's bad 452
3 It's okay 4624
4 It's good 1860
5 It's my favorite 98

This gives it an average score of 3.12 / 5. Making it 366th 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 3.14
Female 3.11

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
charming (not awkward)0.07187547
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06733484
jock (not nerd)0.06717416
fresh (not stinky)0.06097390
social (not reclusive)0.05927393
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.05667389
nurturing (not poisonous)0.05457377
sheriff (not outlaw)0.0547386
angelic (not demonic)0.04947383
mainstream (not arcane)0.04017377
loyal (not traitorous)0.03667521
disarming (not creepy)0.03667393
alpha (not beta)0.03537380
altruistic (not selfish)0.03437382
obedient (not rebellious)0.03437428
genius (not dunce)0.03297470
orderly (not chaotic)0.03277471
gracious (not feisty)0.03187388
blissful (not haunted)0.03043436
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.037361
spiritual (not skeptical)0.0287510
reasonable (not deranged)0.02367413
scientific (not artistic)0.01623602
conventional (not creative)0.01237541
formal (not intimate)0.01197435
logical (not emotional)0.00917518
lavish (not frugal)0.0097375
mature (not juvenile)0.00863441
tame (not wild)0.00773474
meek (not bossy)0.00737412
strict (not lenient)0.00677506
shallow (not deep)0.00557452
stylish (not slovenly)0.00547429
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00053475
masculine (not feminine)0.00027547
sober (not indulgent)0.00027383

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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