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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
78.3Dr. Horrible
65.75Penny
60.25Captain Hammer

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 Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 11
2 It's bad 11
3 It's okay 225
4 It's good 1373
5 It's my favorite 334

This gives it an average score of 4.03 / 5. Making it 93rd 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 4.04
Female 4.02

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
nerd (not jock)0.13632205
disarming (not creepy)0.05452197
creative (not conventional)0.04392325
awkward (not charming)0.04132327
deep (not shallow)0.03742258
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03742193
reclusive (not social)0.03692194
scientific (not artistic)0.03671300
frugal (not lavish)0.03412196
reasonable (not deranged)0.0322208
obedient (not rebellious)0.02972242
slovenly (not stylish)0.02822241
stinky (not fresh)0.02692197
meek (not bossy)0.02672208
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02422312
masculine (not feminine)0.0222331
blissful (not haunted)0.02181170
loyal (not traitorous)0.02182317
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02172199
intimate (not formal)0.02012243
lenient (not strict)0.01982281
arcane (not mainstream)0.01942201
beta (not alpha)0.01932193
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01661216
demonic (not angelic)0.01492193
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01422195
genius (not dunce)0.01352265
juvenile (not mature)0.01281167
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01261219
tame (not wild)0.0121175
logical (not emotional)0.01042312
feisty (not gracious)0.00892192
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00722190
orderly (not chaotic)0.00462263
indulgent (not sober)0.00312191
altruistic (not selfish)0.00292195

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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