The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Desperate Housewives. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Desperate Housewives character are you?" test, click the link above to access it. This page aggregates the crowd sourced data that the quiz is built upon.
| Notability | Name |
|---|---|
| 85.05 | Gabrielle Solis |
| 82.35 | Bree Van de Kamp |
| 76.85 | Lynette Scavo |
| 65.8 | Susan Mayer |
| 61.25 | Mary Alice Young |
| 57.05 | Mike Delfino |
| 52.25 | Edie Britt |
| 48.35 | Carlos Solis |
| 35.5 | Tom Scavo |
| 30.95 | Julie Mayer |
To see how each character was rated by users, view their individual page.
As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate Desperate Housewives?". The distribution of their responses are below.
| # | Response | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's the worst | 36 |
| 2 | It's bad | 45 |
| 3 | It's okay | 939 |
| 4 | It's good | 2351 |
| 5 | It's my favorite | 758 |
This gives it an average score of 3.91 / 5. Making it 190th 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 | 3.83 |
| Female | 3.92 |
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) | 0.0946 | 4276 |
| stylish (not slovenly) | 0.0868 | 4171 |
| fresh (not stinky) | 0.0532 | 4153 |
| intimate (not formal) | 0.0525 | 4169 |
| emotional (not logical) | 0.0492 | 4232 |
| charming (not awkward) | 0.043 | 4258 |
| disarming (not creepy) | 0.0422 | 4163 |
| strict (not lenient) | 0.0402 | 4252 |
| deep (not shallow) | 0.0402 | 4215 |
| bossy (not meek) | 0.0396 | 4188 |
| sheriff (not outlaw) | 0.0388 | 4141 |
| stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous) | 0.0382 | 4148 |
| loyal (not traitorous) | 0.0368 | 4235 |
| angelic (not demonic) | 0.0307 | 4140 |
| spiritual (not skeptical) | 0.0305 | 4217 |
| orderly (not chaotic) | 0.0251 | 4194 |
| ivory-tower (not blue-collar) | 0.0213 | 4137 |
| indulgent (not sober) | 0.0212 | 4144 |
| gracious (not feisty) | 0.0189 | 4149 |
| artistic (not scientific) | 0.0172 | 3714 |
| jock (not nerd) | 0.0168 | 4184 |
| obedient (not rebellious) | 0.0166 | 4164 |
| lavish (not frugal) | 0.0135 | 4137 |
| mature (not juvenile) | 0.0129 | 3547 |
| nurturing (not poisonous) | 0.0087 | 4140 |
| genius (not dunce) | 0.0083 | 4189 |
| blissful (not haunted) | 0.0072 | 3606 |
| conventional (not creative) | 0.0054 | 4262 |
| social (not reclusive) | 0.0053 | 4149 |
| selfish (not altruistic) | 0.0048 | 4148 |
| tame (not wild) | 0.0048 | 3652 |
| genuine (not sarcastic) | 0.0034 | 3631 |
| alpha (not beta) | 0.0021 | 4140 |
| high-tech (not low-tech) | 0.0008 | 3617 |
| arcane (not mainstream) | 0.0005 | 4160 |
| deranged (not reasonable) | 0.0004 | 4206 |
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: