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The Simpsons characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Simpsons. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Simpsons 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 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
82.3Bart Simpson
79.85Lisa Simpson
77.55Homer Simpson
72.3Marge Simpson
47.7Mr. Burns
37.2Ned Flanders
34.65Krusty the Clown
33.45Moe Szyslak
28.7Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
26.2Nelson Muntz
25.9Milhouse Van Houten
25.7Waylon Smithers
25.35Principal Skinner
20.2Edna Krabappel
17.8Barney Gumble

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 49
2 It's bad 174
3 It's okay 4687
4 It's good 8393
5 It's my favorite 1379

This gives it an average score of 3.74 / 5. Making it 288th 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 3.79
Female 3.73

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
genius (not dunce)0.034815552
masculine (not feminine)0.033515880
charming (not awkward)0.028915827
spiritual (not skeptical)0.026415653
indulgent (not sober)0.024215388
rebellious (not obedient)0.023515515
loyal (not traitorous)0.022815740
altruistic (not selfish)0.022215401
gracious (not feisty)0.02215385
wild (not tame)0.020413689
alpha (not beta)0.0215388
high-tech (not low-tech)0.019513637
slovenly (not stylish)0.018215498
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.017115412
reasonable (not deranged)0.01715597
logical (not emotional)0.016915730
creative (not conventional)0.016515842
juvenile (not mature)0.015213549
intimate (not formal)0.014715527
orderly (not chaotic)0.011515567
creepy (not disarming)0.010315446
nurturing (not poisonous)0.010115393
lavish (not frugal)0.0115337
fresh (not stinky)0.009915411
demonic (not angelic)0.009715387
deep (not shallow)0.009115681
artistic (not scientific)0.007913970
blissful (not haunted)0.007313507
arcane (not mainstream)0.005515434
social (not reclusive)0.003415396
jock (not nerd)0.003315569
meek (not bossy)0.002815556
outlaw (not sheriff)0.001515384
strict (not lenient)0.000915778
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.000615340
genuine (not sarcastic)0.000313658

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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