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Elementary characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Elementary. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Elementary 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
92.15Sherlock Holmes
75.3Joan Watson
41.15Marcus Bell

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 17
2 It's bad 29
3 It's okay 435
4 It's good 1122
5 It's my favorite 196

This gives it an average score of 3.81 / 5. Making it 254th 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 3.76
Female 3.82

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)0.16041962
nurturing (not poisonous)0.12191947
mature (not juvenile)0.11081327
disarming (not creepy)0.1041956
genius (not dunce)0.09421988
loyal (not traitorous)0.06681989
arcane (not mainstream)0.06671955
altruistic (not selfish)0.06251950
reasonable (not deranged)0.05871971
deep (not shallow)0.05431966
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05261356
tame (not wild)0.04831369
angelic (not demonic)0.04731946
indulgent (not sober)0.04391949
low-tech (not high-tech)0.04321349
intimate (not formal)0.04061945
orderly (not chaotic)0.04011984
obedient (not rebellious)0.02861949
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02831943
lavish (not frugal)0.02331945
scientific (not artistic)0.02211406
reclusive (not social)0.02131949
creative (not conventional)0.02052001
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02011949
awkward (not charming)0.01872001
haunted (not blissful)0.01631354
lenient (not strict)0.01382009
fresh (not stinky)0.01131946
stylish (not slovenly)0.01081950
feisty (not gracious)0.00931945
masculine (not feminine)0.00912009
logical (not emotional)0.00881989
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00351988
bossy (not meek)0.00281964
alpha (not beta)0.00251938
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.0021945

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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