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Friday Night Lights

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

Characters

The dataset has 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
89.9Eric Taylor
86.1Tim Riggins
83.2Tami Taylor
82.0Matt Saracen
72.2Smash Williams
70.0Tyra Collette
61.7Lyla Garrity
56.7Landry Clarke
53.4Julie Taylor
49.2Jason Street

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 Friday Night Lights?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 51
2 It's bad 29
3 It's okay 439
4 It's good 1351
5 It's my favorite 297

This gives it an average score of 3.84 / 5. Making it 229th 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 3.83
Female 3.84

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.21262155
disarming (not creepy)0.20012156
angelic (not demonic)0.17572151
mature (not juvenile)0.13741248
reasonable (not deranged)0.12652159
loyal (not traitorous)0.11942202
obedient (not rebellious)0.11292175
blissful (not haunted)0.10941247
tame (not wild)0.10351256
orderly (not chaotic)0.10222169
genius (not dunce)0.09962170
deep (not shallow)0.09772188
indulgent (not sober)0.07762154
altruistic (not selfish)0.07682154
sheriff (not outlaw)0.06752151
intimate (not formal)0.0652176
scientific (not artistic)0.06081298
genuine (not sarcastic)0.061271
conventional (not creative)0.05852204
mainstream (not arcane)0.04672157
charming (not awkward)0.04322202
logical (not emotional)0.04022193
nerd (not jock)0.03962162
frugal (not lavish)0.03122147
skeptical (not spiritual)0.03032199
slovenly (not stylish)0.02492178
bossy (not meek)0.02472157
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02382150
feminine (not masculine)0.01682204
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01352147
beta (not alpha)0.01232152
stinky (not fresh)0.01172151
social (not reclusive)0.01092152
gracious (not feisty)0.00672152
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00581272
lenient (not strict)0.00312179

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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