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Shameless characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Shameless. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Shameless 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
87.1Fiona Gallagher
76.0Ian Gallagher
72.6Lip Gallagher
71.1Carl Gallagher
63.55Kevin Ball
63.55Veronica Fisher
60.05Frank Gallagher
43.9Debbie Gallagher
18.65Kermit
16.15Tommy

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 44
2 It's bad 53
3 It's okay 2259
4 It's good 10359
5 It's my favorite 5155

This gives it an average score of 4.15 / 5. Making it 34th 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 4.06
Female 4.15

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
lenient (not strict)0.076218517
outlaw (not sheriff)0.074418035
rebellious (not obedient)0.073518106
sarcastic (not genuine)0.07198289
wild (not tame)0.06748385
demonic (not angelic)0.064418053
feisty (not gracious)0.063618058
dunce (not genius)0.056218313
chaotic (not orderly)0.048118369
deranged (not reasonable)0.046818216
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.046718068
indulgent (not sober)0.043818060
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04218389
jock (not nerd)0.034818193
intimate (not formal)0.03118118
juvenile (not mature)0.02618319
poisonous (not nurturing)0.02518050
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.022717983
artistic (not scientific)0.02048713
selfish (not altruistic)0.017918064
emotional (not logical)0.016518421
bossy (not meek)0.016218186
fresh (not stinky)0.010518051
disarming (not creepy)0.009118095
shallow (not deep)0.008518228
traitorous (not loyal)0.008318451
social (not reclusive)0.00818057
creative (not conventional)0.005518539
lavish (not frugal)0.003818002
slovenly (not stylish)0.003318096
awkward (not charming)0.003118541
high-tech (not low-tech)0.00248266
alpha (not beta)0.001718027
mainstream (not arcane)0.000918074
masculine (not feminine)0.000918562
blissful (not haunted)0.00058229

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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