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New Girl characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of New Girl. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What New Girl 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 5 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
84.95Jess Day
70.7Schmidt
67.05Nick Miller
62.35Cece Parekh
49.45Winston Bishop

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 New Girl?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 25
2 It's bad 27
3 It's okay 783
4 It's good 4340
5 It's my favorite 2322

This gives it an average score of 4.19 / 5. Making it 18th 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 4.05
Female 4.2

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.10037650
disarming (not creepy)0.08637671
angelic (not demonic)0.07547640
intimate (not formal)0.07267738
loyal (not traitorous)0.07057852
lenient (not strict)0.06377820
deep (not shallow)0.0547808
spiritual (not skeptical)0.05397813
emotional (not logical)0.05367849
altruistic (not selfish)0.05167651
feminine (not masculine)0.04777915
social (not reclusive)0.04717650
reasonable (not deranged)0.04467746
mature (not juvenile)0.04456101
blissful (not haunted)0.04096131
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04027644
nerd (not jock)0.03847708
obedient (not rebellious)0.03667727
indulgent (not sober)0.03567633
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03496219
creative (not conventional)0.03337886
artistic (not scientific)0.03166382
stylish (not slovenly)0.02997724
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02987613
fresh (not stinky)0.02817639
beta (not alpha)0.02457633
tame (not wild)0.02226214
meek (not bossy)0.01397707
feisty (not gracious)0.01177640
mainstream (not arcane)0.01047654
genuine (not sarcastic)0.00926237
awkward (not charming)0.00917881
frugal (not lavish)0.00847617
outlaw (not sheriff)0.0047627
chaotic (not orderly)0.00367733
dunce (not genius)0.00167717

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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