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The Departed

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of The Departed.

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
84.6Frank Costello
80.2Billy Costigan
77.7Colin Sullivan
66.5Capt. Oliver Queenan
63.2Sgt. Sean Dignam
60.5Dr. 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 13 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 7
2 It's bad 12
3 It's okay 115
4 It's good 921
5 It's my favorite 223

This gives it an average score of 4.05 / 5. Making it 81st out of the 342 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 4.1
Female 4.0

The responses to the personality quiz can also be cross referenced with the universe ratings to see how personality affects it. The table below show 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)0.11451284
indulgent (not sober)0.09211281
masculine (not feminine)0.08531306
nurturing (not poisonous)0.08421284
reasonable (not deranged)0.06591284
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.06541282
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.06391284
logical (not emotional)0.05811300
genius (not dunce)0.05731294
skeptical (not spiritual)0.05721300
angelic (not demonic)0.05441279
genuine (not sarcastic)0.05341088
scientific (not artistic)0.0511099
lenient (not strict)0.04291297
nerd (not jock)0.03541286
altruistic (not selfish)0.0341286
loyal (not traitorous)0.03341307
charming (not awkward)0.03241311
slovenly (not stylish)0.03231295
mainstream (not arcane)0.02911282
low-tech (not high-tech)0.02671088
outlaw (not sheriff)0.02561283
social (not reclusive)0.02161285
conventional (not creative)0.02141310
alpha (not beta)0.01831283
rebellious (not obedient)0.01491297
mature (not juvenile)0.01341063
gracious (not feisty)0.01171281
shallow (not deep)0.01061300
wild (not tame)0.01051077
orderly (not chaotic)0.01031297
blissful (not haunted)0.01031071
frugal (not lavish)0.0081274
stinky (not fresh)0.00351284
intimate (not formal)0.00221296
bossy (not meek)0.00151284

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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