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Scrubs characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Scrubs. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Scrubs 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
83.75John Michael Dorian
74.55Perry Cox
62.65Christopher Turk
60.1Elliot Reid
59.5Carla Espinosa
52.5Bob Kelso

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 8
2 It's bad 11
3 It's okay 444
4 It's good 2031
5 It's my favorite 517

This gives it an average score of 4.01 / 5. Making it 104th 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 4.09
Female 3.98

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
nerd (not jock)0.0673102
altruistic (not selfish)0.06433079
masculine (not feminine)0.05993233
genius (not dunce)0.05493129
high-tech (not low-tech)0.05212222
sheriff (not outlaw)0.04883075
reasonable (not deranged)0.04823102
tame (not wild)0.04752164
haunted (not blissful)0.04582138
meek (not bossy)0.0453095
nurturing (not poisonous)0.04233071
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.04033081
juvenile (not mature)0.03992098
beta (not alpha)0.03893076
reclusive (not social)0.03493075
skeptical (not spiritual)0.03373212
slovenly (not stylish)0.03333153
gracious (not feisty)0.03283074
intimate (not formal)0.0323154
scientific (not artistic)0.02892294
arcane (not mainstream)0.02743094
disarming (not creepy)0.02693083
logical (not emotional)0.02173210
loyal (not traitorous)0.0213215
deep (not shallow)0.01743182
angelic (not demonic)0.01683075
awkward (not charming)0.01363227
sarcastic (not genuine)0.01262218
creative (not conventional)0.01253228
lenient (not strict)0.0063153
lavish (not frugal)0.00593072
sober (not indulgent)0.00563078
fresh (not stinky)0.00483083
chaotic (not orderly)0.00333125
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.00193078
obedient (not rebellious)0.00183157

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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