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The Good Wife 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 Good Wife. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Good Wife 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
84.5Alicia Florrick
81.45Diane Lockhart
74.4Will Gardner
68.15Kalinda Sharma
54.55Cary Agos
33.4Grace Florrick

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 Good Wife?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 49
2 It's bad 32
3 It's okay 590
4 It's good 1161
5 It's my favorite 217

This gives it an average score of 3.71 / 5. Making it 301st 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 3.85
Female 3.69

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)0.15562045
mature (not juvenile)0.15341388
nerd (not jock)0.14242054
orderly (not chaotic)0.14062075
reasonable (not deranged)0.13682053
genuine (not sarcastic)0.12271431
disarming (not creepy)0.11982050
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.11822052
sheriff (not outlaw)0.11032047
deep (not shallow)0.1072080
scientific (not artistic)0.10091468
genius (not dunce)0.09382075
tame (not wild)0.08551414
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.08352044
angelic (not demonic)0.07832042
skeptical (not spiritual)0.07652104
indulgent (not sober)0.07582039
loyal (not traitorous)0.07112114
logical (not emotional)0.07022111
altruistic (not selfish)0.0662039
obedient (not rebellious)0.06282072
conventional (not creative)0.0392109
reclusive (not social)0.03792045
beta (not alpha)0.02982042
lavish (not frugal)0.02622036
bossy (not meek)0.0232056
intimate (not formal)0.02122073
slovenly (not stylish)0.01682069
strict (not lenient)0.01642090
low-tech (not high-tech)0.01611435
stinky (not fresh)0.0142048
haunted (not blissful)0.00841401
masculine (not feminine)0.00592120
gracious (not feisty)0.00562047
charming (not awkward)0.00562113
arcane (not mainstream)0.00462048

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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