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Grey's Anatomy characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Grey's Anatomy. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Grey's Anatomy 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
90.2Meredith Grey
84.2Derek Shepherd
82.05Cristina Yang
77.3Miranda Bailey
70.65Alex Karev
63.15Richard Webber
56.4Addison Montgomery
51.0George O'Malley
40.15Izzie Stevens
33.65Preston Burke

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 Grey's Anatomy?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 39
2 It's bad 148
3 It's okay 2067
4 It's good 6367
5 It's my favorite 4434

This gives it an average score of 4.15 / 5. Making it 32nd 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 3.92
Female 4.16

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
feminine (not masculine)0.135213563
fresh (not stinky)0.090513123
mainstream (not arcane)0.089213114
bossy (not meek)0.089213224
blissful (not haunted)0.082611344
social (not reclusive)0.082113120
jock (not nerd)0.079313250
charming (not awkward)0.069913529
scientific (not artistic)0.066711781
alpha (not beta)0.059113074
high-tech (not low-tech)0.057711406
lavish (not frugal)0.057413055
conventional (not creative)0.055813518
loyal (not traitorous)0.054813433
orderly (not chaotic)0.049513336
genius (not dunce)0.048913247
sheriff (not outlaw)0.044613102
angelic (not demonic)0.043213108
stylish (not slovenly)0.041513165
sarcastic (not genuine)0.037811438
mature (not juvenile)0.037111356
reasonable (not deranged)0.03713258
wild (not tame)0.035911507
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.033813138
strict (not lenient)0.03113494
emotional (not logical)0.028213329
disarming (not creepy)0.027913158
spiritual (not skeptical)0.024113384
sober (not indulgent)0.023213099
nurturing (not poisonous)0.020913105
altruistic (not selfish)0.019213119
obedient (not rebellious)0.017713171
formal (not intimate)0.007913184
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.004413067
feisty (not gracious)0.002113094
shallow (not deep)0.000613320

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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