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Parks and Recreation characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Parks and Recreation. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Parks and Recreation 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
91.4Leslie Knope
72.15Ron Swanson
65.75April Ludgate
59.3Donna Meagle
58.95Ben Wyatt
53.15Tom Haverford
52.45Ann Perkins
51.7Chris Traeger
23.95Jerry Gergich
17.75Mark Brendanawicz

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 Parks and Recreation?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 18
2 It's bad 16
3 It's okay 771
4 It's good 5917
5 It's my favorite 2657

This gives it an average score of 4.19 / 5. Making it 16th 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 4.12
Female 4.21

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)0.0689822
sheriff (not outlaw)0.06339812
nerd (not jock)0.05969873
loyal (not traitorous)0.058510118
disarming (not creepy)0.05819859
feminine (not masculine)0.056610159
angelic (not demonic)0.04679815
altruistic (not selfish)0.0429828
obedient (not rebellious)0.04129928
genius (not dunce)0.04089968
reasonable (not deranged)0.04019909
mainstream (not arcane)0.03929854
blissful (not haunted)0.03845103
orderly (not chaotic)0.03619983
social (not reclusive)0.03539832
intimate (not formal)0.03319936
sarcastic (not genuine)0.02625226
bossy (not meek)0.02449884
fresh (not stinky)0.02379849
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02315208
deep (not shallow)0.02159999
tame (not wild)0.01835165
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01459824
juvenile (not mature)0.0145099
stylish (not slovenly)0.01289926
gracious (not feisty)0.01119820
emotional (not logical)0.010110103
artistic (not scientific)0.00985417
indulgent (not sober)0.00849812
strict (not lenient)0.006410063
spiritual (not skeptical)0.006210066
charming (not awkward)0.005410129
beta (not alpha)0.00299821
conventional (not creative)0.002110142
lavish (not frugal)0.00139806
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00059783

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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