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Friday Night Lights characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Friday Night Lights. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Friday Night Lights 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 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
86.8Tim Riggins
85.95Eric Taylor
80.5Matt Saracen
78.05Tami Taylor
69.5Lyla Garrity
58.5Tyra Collette
56.65Smash Williams
43.05Jason Street
36.05Landry Clarke
35.9Julie Taylor

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 77
2 It's bad 45
3 It's okay 621
4 It's good 1821
5 It's my favorite 392

This gives it an average score of 3.81 / 5. Making it 249th 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 3.79
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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.21252965
disarming (not creepy)0.18812966
mature (not juvenile)0.15892063
angelic (not demonic)0.15192964
reasonable (not deranged)0.14512971
genius (not dunce)0.12582983
tame (not wild)0.11972068
deep (not shallow)0.1153002
orderly (not chaotic)0.10872983
obedient (not rebellious)0.10742983
genuine (not sarcastic)0.08912083
blissful (not haunted)0.08682054
sheriff (not outlaw)0.08682961
loyal (not traitorous)0.07843016
indulgent (not sober)0.07352963
intimate (not formal)0.07092985
conventional (not creative)0.06923020
scientific (not artistic)0.06842117
altruistic (not selfish)0.06542965
nerd (not jock)0.05642975
logical (not emotional)0.04333006
mainstream (not arcane)0.03932965
skeptical (not spiritual)0.03443013
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03372083
charming (not awkward)0.02813019
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02512963
feminine (not masculine)0.0243018
slovenly (not stylish)0.02322986
bossy (not meek)0.02092972
stinky (not fresh)0.01932961
social (not reclusive)0.01782964
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01492955
frugal (not lavish)0.01292959
beta (not alpha)0.01152959
lenient (not strict)0.00762997
gracious (not feisty)0.00092962

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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