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Prison Break characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Prison Break. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Prison Break 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 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
94.05Michael Scofield
81.4Lincoln Burrows
66.45Sara Tancredi
56.35Fernando Sucre
55.05Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell
48.0John Abruzzi
41.1Benjamin Miles 'C-Note' Franklin
41.1Veronica Donovan
32.35Brad Bellick
32.25Lincoln 'L.J.' Burrows, Jr.

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 Prison Break?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 41
2 It's bad 40
3 It's okay 1004
4 It's good 3142
5 It's my favorite 944

This gives it an average score of 3.95 / 5. Making it 152nd 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 3.91
Female 3.96

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
loyal (not traitorous)0.08545283
mature (not juvenile)0.07054851
angelic (not demonic)0.06685202
disarming (not creepy)0.06445212
blissful (not haunted)0.06444832
scientific (not artistic)0.06114972
nurturing (not poisonous)0.06055204
fresh (not stinky)0.05925196
altruistic (not selfish)0.05785201
social (not reclusive)0.04835206
deep (not shallow)0.04575283
orderly (not chaotic)0.0445249
jock (not nerd)0.04265265
reasonable (not deranged)0.03945261
conventional (not creative)0.03925335
alpha (not beta)0.03895199
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03855207
feminine (not masculine)0.0385331
high-tech (not low-tech)0.0344852
mainstream (not arcane)0.03075194
stylish (not slovenly)0.02945216
obedient (not rebellious)0.02825209
genius (not dunce)0.02815258
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02075198
charming (not awkward)0.02055327
intimate (not formal)0.01865222
bossy (not meek)0.01675257
gracious (not feisty)0.01555189
frugal (not lavish)0.01465174
sober (not indulgent)0.01085202
genuine (not sarcastic)0.00944865
emotional (not logical)0.00855279
lenient (not strict)0.00785315
tame (not wild)0.00774907
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00455187
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00285267

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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