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Psych characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Psych. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Psych 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
89.85Shawn Spencer
71.3Juliet O'Hara
67.5Burton Guster
54.8Henry Spencer
53.8Karen Vick
49.4Carlton Lassiter

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 24
2 It's bad 17
3 It's okay 340
4 It's good 2061
5 It's my favorite 1261

This gives it an average score of 4.22 / 5. Making it 13th 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 4.18
Female 4.23

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)0.11543977
disarming (not creepy)0.08553981
loyal (not traitorous)0.08254050
angelic (not demonic)0.06943967
mature (not juvenile)0.0682356
obedient (not rebellious)0.06713958
altruistic (not selfish)0.0663977
blissful (not haunted)0.06332382
reasonable (not deranged)0.05933994
lenient (not strict)0.04854066
scientific (not artistic)0.042471
genius (not dunce)0.03994030
nerd (not jock)0.03973979
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.03833964
genuine (not sarcastic)0.03832382
intimate (not formal)0.03813975
tame (not wild)0.03372404
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03213957
fresh (not stinky)0.02883970
mainstream (not arcane)0.02683965
deep (not shallow)0.02613984
social (not reclusive)0.02523977
feminine (not masculine)0.02154065
orderly (not chaotic)0.02064038
stylish (not slovenly)0.0193963
low-tech (not high-tech)0.01692372
conventional (not creative)0.01584045
awkward (not charming)0.01084054
beta (not alpha)0.00913969
logical (not emotional)0.00514037
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.0043959
meek (not bossy)0.00383993
feisty (not gracious)0.00343968
sober (not indulgent)0.00173956
skeptical (not spiritual)0.00144025
frugal (not lavish)0.00133958

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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