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Mad Men characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Mad Men. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Mad Men 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 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
91.65Don Draper
86.8Peggy Olson
80.45Joan Holloway
73.15Roger Sterling
53.0Betty Draper
46.2Lane Pryce
45.0Bert Cooper
40.4Pete Campbell
33.25Rachel Menken
30.55Salvatore Romano
29.55Henry Francis
27.95Ken Cosgrove
27.25Stan Rizzo
27.2Harry Crane
20.0Paul Kinsey

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 Mad Men?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 64
2 It's bad 46
3 It's okay 771
4 It's good 2409
5 It's my favorite 740

This gives it an average score of 3.92 / 5. Making it 175th 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 4.02
Female 3.89

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)0.17684101
disarming (not creepy)0.14774078
indulgent (not sober)0.14774065
deep (not shallow)0.10914182
reasonable (not deranged)0.10354106
arcane (not mainstream)0.10164090
genius (not dunce)0.14112
mature (not juvenile)0.09863211
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07324070
skeptical (not spiritual)0.07164169
angelic (not demonic)0.06614074
masculine (not feminine)0.06374212
genuine (not sarcastic)0.06233277
orderly (not chaotic)0.05494104
logical (not emotional)0.05414182
stinky (not fresh)0.0544085
low-tech (not high-tech)0.05133272
tame (not wild)0.04973241
haunted (not blissful)0.04933200
creative (not conventional)0.04824201
lenient (not strict)0.04214153
stylish (not slovenly)0.03814132
beta (not alpha)0.03054067
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.02794072
traitorous (not loyal)0.02554184
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.0234063
intimate (not formal)0.02284134
bossy (not meek)0.02264105
altruistic (not selfish)0.02134072
obedient (not rebellious)0.01354132
frugal (not lavish)0.01244065
awkward (not charming)0.01164204
scientific (not artistic)0.00943343
outlaw (not sheriff)0.00744069
reclusive (not social)0.00694067
feisty (not gracious)0.00264067

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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