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Downton Abbey characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Downton Abbey. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Downton Abbey 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 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
89.25Lady Mary Crawley
84.8Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham
70.8Lady Sybil Crawley
68.7Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham
62.7John Bates
59.2Charlie Carson
57.85Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham
56.6Thomas Barrow
53.9Elsie Carson
53.3Anna Bates
41.0Daisy Mason
39.05Beryl Patmore
35.7Lady Edith Crawley
22.75Sarah O'Brien
22.7William Mason

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 Downton Abbey?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 24
2 It's bad 20
3 It's okay 673
4 It's good 3026
5 It's my favorite 903

This gives it an average score of 4.03 / 5. Making it 94th 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 3.98
Female 4.03

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.10864791
sheriff (not outlaw)0.1074792
angelic (not demonic)0.09454789
obedient (not rebellious)0.09234878
orderly (not chaotic)0.08664857
disarming (not creepy)0.07424805
nerd (not jock)0.07274807
tame (not wild)0.07253691
reasonable (not deranged)0.07194826
genuine (not sarcastic)0.07183755
feminine (not masculine)0.064967
altruistic (not selfish)0.05154787
gracious (not feisty)0.0514788
mature (not juvenile)0.05063649
low-tech (not high-tech)0.05013753
loyal (not traitorous)0.04754953
genius (not dunce)0.04524852
emotional (not logical)0.04044951
strict (not lenient)0.03764884
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.03664790
spiritual (not skeptical)0.03434935
social (not reclusive)0.0314794
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02994789
frugal (not lavish)0.02224791
deep (not shallow)0.02114900
charming (not awkward)0.01874954
conventional (not creative)0.01744963
artistic (not scientific)0.01483840
beta (not alpha)0.01464792
intimate (not formal)0.01274878
blissful (not haunted)0.0123667
fresh (not stinky)0.00934796
mainstream (not arcane)0.00654797
bossy (not meek)0.00544806
stylish (not slovenly)0.00474875
indulgent (not sober)0.00094790

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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