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Only Murders in the Building characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Only Murders in the Building. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Only Murders in the Building 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
86.8Mabel Mora
74.4Oliver Putnam
71.45Charles-Haden Savage
27.1Uma Heller
22.2Howard Morris

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 Only Murders in the Building?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 21
2 It's bad 18
3 It's okay 797
4 It's good 3746
5 It's my favorite 711

This gives it an average score of 3.97 / 5. Making it 138th 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 3.95
Female 3.97

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)0.10645662
loyal (not traitorous)0.07775673
sheriff (not outlaw)0.07645657
reasonable (not deranged)0.06055716
deep (not shallow)0.05785715
angelic (not demonic)0.05625666
disarming (not creepy)0.0565662
nerd (not jock)0.04965713
altruistic (not selfish)0.04775662
obedient (not rebellious)0.04185661
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04135668
genius (not dunce)0.03965674
blissful (not haunted)0.03615659
orderly (not chaotic)0.03345675
spiritual (not skeptical)0.03195660
mainstream (not arcane)0.03145661
social (not reclusive)0.03015669
mature (not juvenile)0.02995710
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02935666
intimate (not formal)0.02925660
sober (not indulgent)0.02855658
feminine (not masculine)0.02435715
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02355654
creative (not conventional)0.02225724
tame (not wild)0.02125716
emotional (not logical)0.01935675
beta (not alpha)0.01685649
frugal (not lavish)0.01675661
fresh (not stinky)0.01655669
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01255650
lenient (not strict)0.01165722
meek (not bossy)0.01135710
artistic (not scientific)0.01045727
gracious (not feisty)0.00795666
awkward (not charming)0.00665727
stylish (not slovenly)0.00095659

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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