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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 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
68.9Nick Stokes
64.6Captain Jim Brass
63.9Sara Sidle
54.25Greg Sanders
44.5Al Robbins
37.95David Phillips

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 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 34
2 It's bad 47
3 It's okay 1020
4 It's good 1365
5 It's my favorite 255

This gives it an average score of 3.65 / 5. Making it 328th 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 3.51
Female 3.67

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
sheriff (not outlaw)0.09312795
strict (not lenient)0.07472861
orderly (not chaotic)0.07252838
genius (not dunce)0.062825
feminine (not masculine)0.05592881
nerd (not jock)0.04812819
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04222799
deep (not shallow)0.03882839
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03572788
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.03282798
bossy (not meek)0.03222813
mature (not juvenile)0.03162457
logical (not emotional)0.02982855
reclusive (not social)0.02972807
slovenly (not stylish)0.02822815
scientific (not artistic)0.02752534
intimate (not formal)0.02722821
gracious (not feisty)0.02652798
haunted (not blissful)0.02612461
altruistic (not selfish)0.01952801
loyal (not traitorous)0.01672864
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01622486
disarming (not creepy)0.01582808
frugal (not lavish)0.01462780
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01372846
sober (not indulgent)0.01352798
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01012483
conventional (not creative)0.00922867
demonic (not angelic)0.00812805
charming (not awkward)0.00682871
beta (not alpha)0.00622786
tame (not wild)0.00612479
fresh (not stinky)0.00512799
reasonable (not deranged)0.00452821
rebellious (not obedient)0.00152819
mainstream (not arcane)0.00022806

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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