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Cowboy Bebop characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Cowboy Bebop. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Cowboy Bebop 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
90.1Spike Spiegel
69.3Faye Valentine
65.1Jet Black
51.8Vicious
49.05Ed
43.6Julia

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 Cowboy Bebop?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 14
2 It's bad 12
3 It's okay 485
4 It's good 3346
5 It's my favorite 1302

This gives it an average score of 4.15 / 5. Making it 37th 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 4.2
Female 4.08

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
arcane (not mainstream)0.09945453
nerd (not jock)0.07115465
haunted (not blissful)0.06993756
meek (not bossy)0.06955459
masculine (not feminine)0.0655790
skeptical (not spiritual)0.05955744
lenient (not strict)0.05285571
indulgent (not sober)0.05045440
deep (not shallow)0.04995688
altruistic (not selfish)0.04945439
frugal (not lavish)0.04895431
logical (not emotional)0.04595765
disarming (not creepy)0.04345451
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03555439
rebellious (not obedient)0.03415652
genius (not dunce)0.03035538
gracious (not feisty)0.02765436
loyal (not traitorous)0.02615770
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0243982
outlaw (not sheriff)0.02285441
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02145433
reasonable (not deranged)0.01845478
creative (not conventional)0.01795779
scientific (not artistic)0.01554098
charming (not awkward)0.01385773
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01323979
reclusive (not social)0.01225446
beta (not alpha)0.00955436
intimate (not formal)0.00755663
angelic (not demonic)0.00585432
wild (not tame)0.00513787
stylish (not slovenly)0.00425656
fresh (not stinky)0.00365439
chaotic (not orderly)0.00225541
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.00045447
juvenile (not mature)0.00043747

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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