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M*A*S*H characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of M*A*S*H. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What M*A*S*H 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
88.4Benjamin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
70.6Margaret 'Hot Lips' Houlihan
59.65Francis Mulcahy
53.95Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly
46.7Maxwell Klinger
30.5Frank Burns

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 M*A*S*H?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 24
2 It's bad 19
3 It's okay 320
4 It's good 1371
5 It's my favorite 349

This gives it an average score of 3.96 / 5. Making it 143rd 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 4.0
Female 3.95

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)0.14232221
deep (not shallow)0.09752277
haunted (not blissful)0.09231668
slovenly (not stylish)0.08532275
stinky (not fresh)0.082216
arcane (not mainstream)0.0732228
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06662216
sheriff (not outlaw)0.06522217
reclusive (not social)0.06022215
masculine (not feminine)0.05512293
frugal (not lavish)0.05442211
beta (not alpha)0.05332217
reasonable (not deranged)0.04972225
genius (not dunce)0.04822228
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.04222211
angelic (not demonic)0.04012217
disarming (not creepy)0.042222
obedient (not rebellious)0.03882273
meek (not bossy)0.03862222
tame (not wild)0.03691674
gracious (not feisty)0.03632216
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.03062218
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03011722
selfish (not altruistic)0.032213
loyal (not traitorous)0.02752291
mature (not juvenile)0.02491662
intimate (not formal)0.02492274
skeptical (not spiritual)0.02022285
chaotic (not orderly)0.01752231
low-tech (not high-tech)0.01561723
emotional (not logical)0.01452288
artistic (not scientific)0.01291740
lenient (not strict)0.00962239
charming (not awkward)0.00942293
indulgent (not sober)0.00552215
creative (not conventional)0.00022293

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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