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Criminal Minds characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Criminal Minds. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Criminal Minds 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
86.9Dr. Spencer Reid
81.8Aaron Hotchner
76.85Derek Morgan
71.5Penelope Garcia
69.4David Rossi
66.0Jennifer Jareau

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 Criminal Minds?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 26
2 It's bad 30
3 It's okay 1095
4 It's good 6632
5 It's my favorite 5322

This gives it an average score of 4.31 / 5. Making it 5th 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 3.99
Female 4.33

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
feminine (not masculine)0.080314007
mature (not juvenile)0.06957599
fresh (not stinky)0.065113714
loyal (not traitorous)0.061513950
disarming (not creepy)0.058713739
spiritual (not skeptical)0.052913881
stylish (not slovenly)0.043413697
altruistic (not selfish)0.041513718
nurturing (not poisonous)0.040413710
lenient (not strict)0.040214006
awkward (not charming)0.038613966
feisty (not gracious)0.037613709
blissful (not haunted)0.03387656
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03287643
obedient (not rebellious)0.032513689
sober (not indulgent)0.030813677
reasonable (not deranged)0.029313809
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.027913707
mainstream (not arcane)0.026213685
deep (not shallow)0.025313763
bossy (not meek)0.024613778
sarcastic (not genuine)0.02387672
emotional (not logical)0.02213905
nerd (not jock)0.019613789
tame (not wild)0.01957763
angelic (not demonic)0.018813695
genius (not dunce)0.014313899
beta (not alpha)0.01413696
sheriff (not outlaw)0.010813685
chaotic (not orderly)0.009113925
intimate (not formal)0.006813728
reclusive (not social)0.005613710
lavish (not frugal)0.005113642
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.001613643
scientific (not artistic)0.00137956
conventional (not creative)0.000313986

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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