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Friends

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of Friends.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
79.7Monica Geller
76.7Rachel Green
74.4Chandler Bing
74.3Joey Tribbiani
72.6Phoebe Buffay
51.6Ross Geller

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 45
2 It's bad 179
3 It's okay 2207
4 It's good 5786
5 It's my favorite 3235

This gives it an average score of 4.05 / 5. Making it 82nd 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 3.91
Female 4.06

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
feminine (not masculine)0.118811964
sheriff (not outlaw)0.113911516
fresh (not stinky)0.113911531
blissful (not haunted)0.10248732
angelic (not demonic)0.096611524
loyal (not traitorous)0.082711882
jock (not nerd)0.0811636
mainstream (not arcane)0.071111593
orderly (not chaotic)0.068111683
sober (not indulgent)0.060911525
obedient (not rebellious)0.060411654
gracious (not feisty)0.057411523
charming (not awkward)0.056911901
spiritual (not skeptical)0.056611802
alpha (not beta)0.055411510
stylish (not slovenly)0.051511654
reasonable (not deranged)0.050911701
social (not reclusive)0.050611543
lavish (not frugal)0.048111484
strict (not lenient)0.044911843
altruistic (not selfish)0.043611546
disarming (not creepy)0.03911600
nurturing (not poisonous)0.038711538
genius (not dunce)0.032611674
bossy (not meek)0.030611639
conventional (not creative)0.028911903
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02838852
sarcastic (not genuine)0.02178887
mature (not juvenile)0.02048615
emotional (not logical)0.020211881
deep (not shallow)0.01411772
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.008711469
wild (not tame)0.00868853
formal (not intimate)0.008311668
artistic (not scientific)0.00469112
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.001911548

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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