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The Good Place

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of The Good Place.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
86.4Janet
84.0Eleanor Shellstrop
83.0Chidi Anagonye
82.9Michael
74.6Tahani Al-Jamil
58.6Jason 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 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 The Good Place?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 11
2 It's bad 33
3 It's okay 893
4 It's good 5160
5 It's my favorite 1476

This gives it an average score of 4.06 / 5. Making it 70th 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 4.08
Female 4.06

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
nerd (not jock)0.10588066
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06156333
nurturing (not poisonous)0.067983
altruistic (not selfish)0.05197989
deep (not shallow)0.04168191
creative (not conventional)0.048304
chaotic (not orderly)0.03298093
masculine (not feminine)0.03128332
stinky (not fresh)0.03077987
slovenly (not stylish)0.02828107
frugal (not lavish)0.02797958
loyal (not traitorous)0.02738260
intimate (not formal)0.0268114
artistic (not scientific)0.02566526
angelic (not demonic)0.02487972
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02266310
genius (not dunce)0.02038092
emotional (not logical)0.0198249
beta (not alpha)0.01747971
reclusive (not social)0.01627987
arcane (not mainstream)0.01617996
juvenile (not mature)0.01576168
disarming (not creepy)0.01568022
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01527932
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01527997
skeptical (not spiritual)0.01518213
rebellious (not obedient)0.01438104
awkward (not charming)0.01388299
indulgent (not sober)0.0117970
reasonable (not deranged)0.01018091
meek (not bossy)0.00938059
lenient (not strict)0.0038203
outlaw (not sheriff)0.0017974
wild (not tame)0.00086283
feisty (not gracious)0.00037977
haunted (not blissful)0.06191

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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