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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.

Characters

The dataset has 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
77.2Penny
67.2Dr. Horrible
62.9Captain 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 13 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 10
2 It's bad 9
3 It's okay 187
4 It's good 1212
5 It's my favorite 301

This gives it an average score of 4.04 / 5. Making it 86th out of the 342 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 4.05
Female 4.04

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below show 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)0.12881896
awkward (not charming)0.05462018
reclusive (not social)0.04861889
creative (not conventional)0.04562015
stinky (not fresh)0.04451889
deep (not shallow)0.04071948
obedient (not rebellious)0.03821937
slovenly (not stylish)0.0361937
frugal (not lavish)0.03451891
skeptical (not spiritual)0.03292006
beta (not alpha)0.03181888
reasonable (not deranged)0.03141900
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03031888
scientific (not artistic)0.0294991
meek (not bossy)0.02741901
disarming (not creepy)0.02591892
feisty (not gracious)0.02411886
intimate (not formal)0.0241939
juvenile (not mature)0.023859
loyal (not traitorous)0.02152011
arcane (not mainstream)0.02021893
lenient (not strict)0.01771972
tame (not wild)0.016869
demonic (not angelic)0.01521889
low-tech (not high-tech)0.015913
indulgent (not sober)0.01421886
dunce (not genius)0.01121959
chaotic (not orderly)0.01051957
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01021893
sarcastic (not genuine)0.0089911
emotional (not logical)0.00882006
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00871884
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.00841888
selfish (not altruistic)0.00671890
masculine (not feminine)0.00572022
blissful (not haunted)0.0047864

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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