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Scandal characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Scandal. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Scandal 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
95.8Olivia Pope
72.8Fitzgerald Grant
65.55Cyrus Beene
64.55Mellie Grant
64.0Rowan Pope
62.45Jake Ballard
56.25Huck
52.8Abby Whelan
43.1Quinn Perkins
37.8David Rosen

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 23
2 It's bad 40
3 It's okay 638
4 It's good 1653
5 It's my favorite 362

This gives it an average score of 3.84 / 5. Making it 234th 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 3.8
Female 3.85

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
disarming (not creepy)0.12592729
nurturing (not poisonous)0.11062724
indulgent (not sober)0.08762728
mature (not juvenile)0.0791829
deep (not shallow)0.0782771
angelic (not demonic)0.07752721
bossy (not meek)0.07482746
high-tech (not low-tech)0.06781861
loyal (not traitorous)0.06512790
lavish (not frugal)0.06392722
mainstream (not arcane)0.05862729
intimate (not formal)0.05852755
feminine (not masculine)0.05762804
blissful (not haunted)0.05651839
genius (not dunce)0.05512757
scientific (not artistic)0.05251919
nerd (not jock)0.04832750
alpha (not beta)0.04552725
reasonable (not deranged)0.0442747
conventional (not creative)0.04212805
altruistic (not selfish)0.04162729
feisty (not gracious)0.03882725
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.03142722
stylish (not slovenly)0.03132748
fresh (not stinky)0.03092727
social (not reclusive)0.02992728
charming (not awkward)0.02642806
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.02422725
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02082725
lenient (not strict)0.01932785
orderly (not chaotic)0.01922759
obedient (not rebellious)0.01572754
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01421867
emotional (not logical)0.01282785
spiritual (not skeptical)0.00542787
tame (not wild)0.00381860

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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