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The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of Psych.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
86.1Shawn Spencer
82.6Burton Guster
82.4Juliet O'Hara
76.0Henry Spencer
75.0Karen Vick
64.7Carlton 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 13 and 60 years of age).
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19%
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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 19
2 It's bad 13
3 It's okay 290
4 It's good 1781
5 It's my favorite 1095

This gives it an average score of 4.23 / 5. Making it 12th out of the 342 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 4.2
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 show 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)0.12693395
loyal (not traitorous)0.09573465
disarming (not creepy)0.08453396
altruistic (not selfish)0.0773394
blissful (not haunted)0.07641799
angelic (not demonic)0.07413384
obedient (not rebellious)0.06723375
reasonable (not deranged)0.0593406
mature (not juvenile)0.05891769
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.053381
nerd (not jock)0.04653391
scientific (not artistic)0.04571884
genius (not dunce)0.04343447
lenient (not strict)0.04273480
genuine (not sarcastic)0.04191799
intimate (not formal)0.0393392
fresh (not stinky)0.03743387
social (not reclusive)0.03733392
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03663376
stylish (not slovenly)0.03273380
deep (not shallow)0.03183396
feminine (not masculine)0.02973478
orderly (not chaotic)0.02623454
tame (not wild)0.02451819
conventional (not creative)0.01553459
mainstream (not arcane)0.01523381
beta (not alpha)0.01253389
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.01233376
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01163440
feisty (not gracious)0.00643386
lavish (not frugal)0.0063373
charming (not awkward)0.00483466
indulgent (not sober)0.0023372
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00191791
emotional (not logical)0.00173455
bossy (not meek)0.03406

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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