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The Good Place characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Good Place. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Good Place 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 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
87.9Eleanor Shellstrop
74.05Michael
69.8Tahani Al-Jamil
68.3Chidi Anagonye
64.0Janet
49.55Jason Mendoza

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 The Good Place?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 15
2 It's bad 39
3 It's okay 1040
4 It's good 6217
5 It's my favorite 1814

This gives it an average score of 4.07 / 5. Making it 70th 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 4.08
Female 4.07

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
nerd (not jock)0.11039797
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06259701
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05938052
altruistic (not selfish)0.05729703
deep (not shallow)0.04499926
creative (not conventional)0.040310044
loyal (not traitorous)0.03859991
chaotic (not orderly)0.03759824
artistic (not scientific)0.02928272
masculine (not feminine)0.029210077
beta (not alpha)0.02799682
frugal (not lavish)0.0279675
intimate (not formal)0.02669834
slovenly (not stylish)0.02599824
stinky (not fresh)0.02559708
angelic (not demonic)0.02559690
reclusive (not social)0.02249705
awkward (not charming)0.019810045
genius (not dunce)0.01839819
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.0179717
indulgent (not sober)0.01659687
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01659647
juvenile (not mature)0.01647904
emotional (not logical)0.0169981
disarming (not creepy)0.01529737
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01479943
rebellious (not obedient)0.01439821
high-tech (not low-tech)0.01298025
arcane (not mainstream)0.01089714
meek (not bossy)0.01019795
tame (not wild)0.00868017
reasonable (not deranged)0.00569825
outlaw (not sheriff)0.00559690
lenient (not strict)0.00259951
haunted (not blissful)0.00117908
feisty (not gracious)0.00069694

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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