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Firefly + Serenity

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

Characters

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

Notability Name
90.6River Tam
86.5Zoe Washburne
82.8Malcolm Reynolds
81.6Inara Serra
80.5Kaylee Frye
75.8Hoban Washburne
73.7Derrial Book
69.6The Operative
63.6Simon Tam
52.2Jayne Cobb

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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33%
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Rating

As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate Firefly + Serenity?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 38
2 It's bad 60
3 It's okay 775
4 It's good 6944
5 It's my favorite 2381

This gives it an average score of 4.13 / 5. Making it 44th 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 4.14
Female 4.13

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
reasonable (not deranged)0.093411526
sheriff (not outlaw)0.085911500
genius (not dunce)0.084811553
scientific (not artistic)0.077310161
deep (not shallow)0.072111741
nurturing (not poisonous)0.068411495
loyal (not traitorous)0.06611766
nerd (not jock)0.062411526
logical (not emotional)0.060511754
disarming (not creepy)0.059111499
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.056911497
blissful (not haunted)0.04839863
fresh (not stinky)0.044411495
angelic (not demonic)0.043311492
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03810078
intimate (not formal)0.032511706
altruistic (not selfish)0.029811499
bossy (not meek)0.026211532
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02611494
mature (not juvenile)0.0259887
alpha (not beta)0.023311483
conventional (not creative)0.022511796
masculine (not feminine)0.020711790
wild (not tame)0.02069899
orderly (not chaotic)0.020211552
mainstream (not arcane)0.019511501
skeptical (not spiritual)0.012211761
sober (not indulgent)0.011811501
charming (not awkward)0.008711795
strict (not lenient)0.006111589
frugal (not lavish)0.005511494
gracious (not feisty)0.004311496
sarcastic (not genuine)0.003110083
rebellious (not obedient)0.002911705
reclusive (not social)0.000811500
slovenly (not stylish)0.000211699

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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