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NCIS characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of NCIS. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What NCIS 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
92.45Leroy Jethro Gibbs
73.8Anthony DiNozzo
70.7Abby Sciuto
60.2Timothy McGee
59.3Donald Mallard
43.45Jimmy Palmer

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 7
2 It's bad 18
3 It's okay 785
4 It's good 1978
5 It's my favorite 477

This gives it an average score of 3.89 / 5. Making it 200th 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 3.8
Female 3.9

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
mature (not juvenile)0.08862852
loyal (not traitorous)0.0663563
reasonable (not deranged)0.06523537
fresh (not stinky)0.05913492
logical (not emotional)0.05223563
genius (not dunce)0.05133507
disarming (not creepy)0.05113502
altruistic (not selfish)0.04843491
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04663483
sober (not indulgent)0.0453491
scientific (not artistic)0.0442991
orderly (not chaotic)0.03893511
blissful (not haunted)0.03842883
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03733490
feisty (not gracious)0.03653485
obedient (not rebellious)0.03343522
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03293485
feminine (not masculine)0.03143599
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03123476
awkward (not charming)0.03113580
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03072926
mainstream (not arcane)0.03043501
bossy (not meek)0.02963523
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02772935
alpha (not beta)0.02493487
slovenly (not stylish)0.02233527
conventional (not creative)0.0223588
tame (not wild)0.022918
deep (not shallow)0.01633566
intimate (not formal)0.01613523
angelic (not demonic)0.01613482
frugal (not lavish)0.01173482
strict (not lenient)0.00813562
social (not reclusive)0.00333491
jock (not nerd)0.00313523
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00093544

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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