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Mindhunter characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Mindhunter. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Mindhunter 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
84.15Holden Ford
69.8Bill Tench
54.75Dr. Wendy Carr

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 Mindhunter?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 10
2 It's bad 13
3 It's okay 155
4 It's good 1264
5 It's my favorite 466

This gives it an average score of 4.13 / 5. Making it 41st 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 4.16
Female 4.13

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
reclusive (not social)0.09661939
masculine (not feminine)0.08172014
deep (not shallow)0.07981989
skeptical (not spiritual)0.07261987
awkward (not charming)0.0682008
mature (not juvenile)0.06531544
indulgent (not sober)0.06431937
haunted (not blissful)0.05871574
frugal (not lavish)0.05641936
nerd (not jock)0.05611954
meek (not bossy)0.05431958
reasonable (not deranged)0.05421961
lenient (not strict)0.04851983
disarming (not creepy)0.04361942
arcane (not mainstream)0.04191945
beta (not alpha)0.03461935
logical (not emotional)0.03011990
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02841603
feisty (not gracious)0.02841936
tame (not wild)0.02821599
loyal (not traitorous)0.02571993
demonic (not angelic)0.02531940
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02281940
nurturing (not poisonous)0.02261932
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.02161934
scientific (not artistic)0.01871647
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01541941
genius (not dunce)0.0111954
stinky (not fresh)0.01031942
creative (not conventional)0.00832011
obedient (not rebellious)0.00821963
genuine (not sarcastic)0.00361603
selfish (not altruistic)0.00171939
intimate (not formal)0.00131970
chaotic (not orderly)0.0011961
slovenly (not stylish)0.0011965

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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