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Law & Order: SVU characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Law & Order: SVU. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Law & Order: SVU 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
95.55Olivia Benson
75.5Elliot Stabler
73.35Odafin Tutuola
55.4John Munch
54.75Donald Cragen
46.35Melinda Warner

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 Law & Order: SVU?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 15
2 It's bad 16
3 It's okay 647
4 It's good 2198
5 It's my favorite 925

This gives it an average score of 4.05 / 5. Making it 82nd 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 3.83
Female 4.08

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.0763978
mature (not juvenile)0.07483314
loyal (not traitorous)0.07354065
feminine (not masculine)0.07224080
deep (not shallow)0.06284041
fresh (not stinky)0.05633975
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.04773979
genius (not dunce)0.04584007
disarming (not creepy)0.04473995
intimate (not formal)0.03994007
angelic (not demonic)0.03783974
reasonable (not deranged)0.03754026
obedient (not rebellious)0.03564000
orderly (not chaotic)0.03544008
mainstream (not arcane)0.03133985
altruistic (not selfish)0.03133978
spiritual (not skeptical)0.03114039
emotional (not logical)0.02754054
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02563362
indulgent (not sober)0.02473975
nerd (not jock)0.02394003
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02343968
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02243363
feisty (not gracious)0.01673971
social (not reclusive)0.01593980
sheriff (not outlaw)0.01473972
wild (not tame)0.01183353
artistic (not scientific)0.01173416
lenient (not strict)0.01014058
bossy (not meek)0.00943993
haunted (not blissful)0.00673323
creative (not conventional)0.00474066
stylish (not slovenly)0.0044007
charming (not awkward)0.00224069
lavish (not frugal)0.00213966
beta (not alpha)0.00193963

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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