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The Mentalist

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

Characters

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

Notability Name
90.8Patrick Jane
84.2Teresa Lisbon
78.6Kimball Cho
71.7Red John
63.8Grace Van Pelt
61.2Wayne Rigsby

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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19%
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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 Mentalist?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 6
2 It's bad 12
3 It's okay 376
4 It's good 1370
5 It's my favorite 385

This gives it an average score of 3.98 / 5. Making it 126th 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 3.96
Female 3.99

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
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.07022198
spiritual (not skeptical)0.06282249
genius (not dunce)0.06242231
deep (not shallow)0.06122237
arcane (not mainstream)0.0452204
loyal (not traitorous)0.04272269
altruistic (not selfish)0.04032201
sober (not indulgent)0.0392201
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03812196
fresh (not stinky)0.03762196
sarcastic (not genuine)0.03441822
creative (not conventional)0.03372268
wild (not tame)0.03161814
nerd (not jock)0.02412221
logical (not emotional)0.02362263
angelic (not demonic)0.02262195
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.02012192
orderly (not chaotic)0.01932231
reasonable (not deranged)0.01732221
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01712199
disarming (not creepy)0.01642212
mature (not juvenile)0.01641743
slovenly (not stylish)0.01252226
social (not reclusive)0.01162200
artistic (not scientific)0.01151868
frugal (not lavish)0.01082192
haunted (not blissful)0.00971793
awkward (not charming)0.00872268
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00791813
alpha (not beta)0.00482193
obedient (not rebellious)0.00452225
lenient (not strict)0.00272259
formal (not intimate)0.00222225
gracious (not feisty)0.00212195
feminine (not masculine)0.00182276
bossy (not meek)0.0012216

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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