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Sex and the City

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

Characters

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

Notability Name
82.5Samantha Jones
78.7Carrie Bradshaw
68.2Mr. Big
67.9Miranda Hobbes
62.7Charlotte York
40.4Steve Brady

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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Rating

As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate Sex and the City?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 25
2 It's bad 57
3 It's okay 833
4 It's good 1827
5 It's my favorite 490

This gives it an average score of 3.84 / 5. Making it 230th 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 3.75
Female 3.84

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
charming (not awkward)0.12833307
stylish (not slovenly)0.12763235
social (not reclusive)0.12473223
lavish (not frugal)0.12343212
feminine (not masculine)0.11193319
fresh (not stinky)0.0983220
blissful (not haunted)0.09042560
mature (not juvenile)0.08212521
disarming (not creepy)0.07793236
genuine (not sarcastic)0.07432583
angelic (not demonic)0.07093216
orderly (not chaotic)0.07053265
mainstream (not arcane)0.05593232
intimate (not formal)0.05533241
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.05433219
jock (not nerd)0.05363249
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04983276
gracious (not feisty)0.04893219
reasonable (not deranged)0.04883260
alpha (not beta)0.04823214
bossy (not meek)0.04733248
indulgent (not sober)0.04463216
obedient (not rebellious)0.04423231
genius (not dunce)0.04413266
deep (not shallow)0.03493265
loyal (not traitorous)0.03143296
altruistic (not selfish)0.02953222
emotional (not logical)0.02953293
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0263217
wild (not tame)0.02162590
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01683220
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01623225
scientific (not artistic)0.01612652
strict (not lenient)0.01513306
creative (not conventional)0.00283308
low-tech (not high-tech)0.0012575

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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