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Castle characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Castle. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Castle 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
89.65Richard Castle
89.5Kate Beckett
53.3Martha Rodgers
52.85Alexis Castle
44.8Javier Esposito
38.35Kevin Ryan

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 16
2 It's bad 18
3 It's okay 435
4 It's good 1446
5 It's my favorite 363

This gives it an average score of 3.93 / 5. Making it 165th 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 3.78
Female 3.96

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
disarming (not creepy)0.10712322
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06932316
feminine (not masculine)0.06392417
sheriff (not outlaw)0.06062316
genius (not dunce)0.05582340
mature (not juvenile)0.05531847
loyal (not traitorous)0.0452396
angelic (not demonic)0.04062312
intimate (not formal)0.03792360
indulgent (not sober)0.03792316
bossy (not meek)0.03432337
deep (not shallow)0.03152381
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02991904
blissful (not haunted)0.02961856
reasonable (not deranged)0.02792347
obedient (not rebellious)0.02752358
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02692317
frugal (not lavish)0.02582310
scientific (not artistic)0.02571955
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02522312
conventional (not creative)0.02522407
nerd (not jock)0.02342337
altruistic (not selfish)0.02312319
social (not reclusive)0.02092317
feisty (not gracious)0.02032316
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01561902
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01452387
beta (not alpha)0.01232315
emotional (not logical)0.01182391
wild (not tame)0.00941883
orderly (not chaotic)0.00812352
charming (not awkward)0.00642410
slovenly (not stylish)0.00372359
mainstream (not arcane)0.00232320
fresh (not stinky)0.0022314
strict (not lenient)0.00042374

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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