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House, M.D. characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of House, M.D.. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What House, M.D. 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
94.6Dr. Gregory House
60.55Dr. Lisa Cuddy
57.25Dr. Eric Foreman
56.1Dr. James Wilson
49.65Dr. Robert Chase
49.65Dr. Allison Cameron

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 House, M.D.?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 6
2 It's bad 16
3 It's okay 465
4 It's good 2549
5 It's my favorite 810

This gives it an average score of 4.08 / 5. Making it 67th 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 4.05
Female 4.08

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
wild (not tame)0.05633546
poisonous (not nurturing)0.04964086
sarcastic (not genuine)0.04633546
stylish (not slovenly)0.03844143
demonic (not angelic)0.03724089
scientific (not artistic)0.03483653
genius (not dunce)0.03394153
selfish (not altruistic)0.03244099
rebellious (not obedient)0.03014138
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02813542
bossy (not meek)0.02794143
logical (not emotional)0.02764211
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.0264082
deep (not shallow)0.02554194
creepy (not disarming)0.02484108
orderly (not chaotic)0.02074147
intimate (not formal)0.0194141
deranged (not reasonable)0.0184159
nerd (not jock)0.01714140
feisty (not gracious)0.01694095
outlaw (not sheriff)0.01614093
sober (not indulgent)0.01464093
fresh (not stinky)0.01394089
mature (not juvenile)0.01233482
haunted (not blissful)0.00873496
lavish (not frugal)0.00814092
creative (not conventional)0.00654253
alpha (not beta)0.00584087
charming (not awkward)0.00494239
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00464197
lenient (not strict)0.00444221
arcane (not mainstream)0.00364118
reclusive (not social)0.00354093
masculine (not feminine)0.00354256
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00254096
loyal (not traitorous)0.00154210

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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