The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Sherlock. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Sherlock character are you?" test, click the link above to access it. This page aggregates the crowd sourced data that the quiz is built upon.
| Notability | Name |
|---|---|
| 92.05 | Sherlock Holmes |
| 72.55 | Dr. John Watson |
| 52.15 | Mycroft Holmes |
| 47.1 | Mrs. Hudson |
| 36.5 | D.I. Greg Lestrade |
| 36.35 | Molly Hooper |
To see how each character was rated by users, view their individual page.
As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate Sherlock?". The distribution of their responses are below.
| # | Response | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's the worst | 29 |
| 2 | It's bad | 85 |
| 3 | It's okay | 1093 |
| 4 | It's good | 4289 |
| 5 | It's my favorite | 2174 |
This gives it an average score of 4.11 / 5. Making it 54th 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 | 3.99 |
| Female | 4.13 |
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) | 0.0881 | 8381 |
| deep (not shallow) | 0.0654 | 8464 |
| fresh (not stinky) | 0.0624 | 8258 |
| alpha (not beta) | 0.0589 | 8238 |
| logical (not emotional) | 0.057 | 8518 |
| high-tech (not low-tech) | 0.0521 | 6873 |
| ivory-tower (not blue-collar) | 0.0488 | 8223 |
| mature (not juvenile) | 0.0473 | 6680 |
| disarming (not creepy) | 0.0463 | 8280 |
| sarcastic (not genuine) | 0.0441 | 6887 |
| adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud) | 0.0441 | 8263 |
| stylish (not slovenly) | 0.0438 | 8368 |
| bossy (not meek) | 0.0432 | 8340 |
| sheriff (not outlaw) | 0.0419 | 8252 |
| feminine (not masculine) | 0.0376 | 8612 |
| wild (not tame) | 0.0366 | 6875 |
| scientific (not artistic) | 0.0358 | 7109 |
| reasonable (not deranged) | 0.0348 | 8382 |
| charming (not awkward) | 0.031 | 8579 |
| strict (not lenient) | 0.0285 | 8512 |
| rebellious (not obedient) | 0.0262 | 8358 |
| blissful (not haunted) | 0.0258 | 6762 |
| sober (not indulgent) | 0.0245 | 8245 |
| loyal (not traitorous) | 0.0235 | 8530 |
| nurturing (not poisonous) | 0.0157 | 8256 |
| lavish (not frugal) | 0.0155 | 8237 |
| altruistic (not selfish) | 0.0106 | 8257 |
| formal (not intimate) | 0.0084 | 8371 |
| spiritual (not skeptical) | 0.0079 | 8484 |
| demonic (not angelic) | 0.0077 | 8236 |
| conventional (not creative) | 0.0058 | 8589 |
| social (not reclusive) | 0.0044 | 8259 |
| feisty (not gracious) | 0.0034 | 8243 |
| arcane (not mainstream) | 0.001 | 8291 |
| chaotic (not orderly) | 0.0009 | 8378 |
| jock (not nerd) | 0.0005 | 8345 |
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: