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Silicon Valley characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Silicon Valley. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Silicon Valley 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
78.05Richard Hendricks
63.1Gavin Belson
61.75Bertram Gilfoyle
48.35Dinesh Chugtai
47.5Monica Hall
43.4Jared Dunn
43.35Erlich Bachman
35.9Jian-Yang
35.6Peter Gregory
27.05Nelson Bighetti

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 Silicon Valley?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 31
2 It's bad 18
3 It's okay 432
4 It's good 1829
5 It's my favorite 328

This gives it an average score of 3.91 / 5. Making it 186th 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 3.98
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
nerd (not jock)0.11742689
skeptical (not spiritual)0.09492759
masculine (not feminine)0.0942774
scientific (not artistic)0.09252024
disarming (not creepy)0.08462676
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0812676
genuine (not sarcastic)0.07791965
genius (not dunce)0.0682712
reclusive (not social)0.06162674
logical (not emotional)0.06032751
meek (not bossy)0.05982686
tame (not wild)0.05911941
reasonable (not deranged)0.05882690
arcane (not mainstream)0.05832680
orderly (not chaotic)0.05672723
slovenly (not stylish)0.0562715
high-tech (not low-tech)0.051962
indulgent (not sober)0.04822672
awkward (not charming)0.04792772
angelic (not demonic)0.042672
haunted (not blissful)0.03871929
obedient (not rebellious)0.03872704
sheriff (not outlaw)0.03852672
beta (not alpha)0.03822673
loyal (not traitorous)0.03622765
gracious (not feisty)0.03592671
stinky (not fresh)0.03332676
deep (not shallow)0.03192731
mature (not juvenile)0.02931925
lenient (not strict)0.02862744
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.0262674
conventional (not creative)0.0262776
frugal (not lavish)0.0252669
altruistic (not selfish)0.01792676
intimate (not formal)0.0162707
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.01142676

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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