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The Departed characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Departed. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Departed 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
82.05Billy Costigan
81.4Frank Costello
65.95Colin Sullivan
57.4Sgt. Sean Dignam
42.9Capt. Oliver Queenan
38.5Dr. Madolyn Madden

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 13
2 It's bad 19
3 It's okay 167
4 It's good 1289
5 It's my favorite 279

This gives it an average score of 4.02 / 5. Making it 99th 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 4.08
Female 3.95

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
disarming (not creepy)0.12941782
masculine (not feminine)0.12371811
nurturing (not poisonous)0.10251779
genius (not dunce)0.09961793
reasonable (not deranged)0.09391789
indulgent (not sober)0.07821778
loyal (not traitorous)0.07541806
skeptical (not spiritual)0.06991798
logical (not emotional)0.06671799
angelic (not demonic)0.06181777
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.06181780
lenient (not strict)0.06031805
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05971586
scientific (not artistic)0.05171607
alpha (not beta)0.04451779
mature (not juvenile)0.03761569
gracious (not feisty)0.03711777
charming (not awkward)0.03181819
outlaw (not sheriff)0.0311776
altruistic (not selfish)0.031782
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.02931779
conventional (not creative)0.0281816
orderly (not chaotic)0.02711797
deep (not shallow)0.0231807
social (not reclusive)0.02251781
mainstream (not arcane)0.02151782
nerd (not jock)0.02021792
blissful (not haunted)0.01771567
frugal (not lavish)0.01621772
slovenly (not stylish)0.01291789
meek (not bossy)0.00661790
formal (not intimate)0.0051792
fresh (not stinky)0.0051781
rebellious (not obedient)0.00281795
wild (not tame)0.00251583
low-tech (not high-tech)0.00151584

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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