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Star Trek: The Next Generation characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Star Trek: The Next Generation 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
95.8Jean-Luc Picard
76.3Data
74.15William Riker
63.0Worf
59.85Deanna Troi
59.7Geordi La Forge
54.45Beverly Crusher
46.9Guinan
38.1Tasha Yar
33.85Wesley Crusher

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 Star Trek: The Next Generation?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 40
2 It's bad 45
3 It's okay 735
4 It's good 2683
5 It's my favorite 902

This gives it an average score of 3.99 / 5. Making it 120th 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 3.9

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)0.20594646
nurturing (not poisonous)0.13484625
tame (not wild)0.12382688
genuine (not sarcastic)0.11872887
arcane (not mainstream)0.10944632
reclusive (not social)0.10944622
slovenly (not stylish)0.10474836
reasonable (not deranged)0.09764654
skeptical (not spiritual)0.09664906
haunted (not blissful)0.09272669
masculine (not feminine)0.09134932
frugal (not lavish)0.09054616
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.08134627
stinky (not fresh)0.0794630
genius (not dunce)0.07374690
scientific (not artistic)0.06812974
deep (not shallow)0.06214863
altruistic (not selfish)0.05684619
logical (not emotional)0.05554911
beta (not alpha)0.05414619
gracious (not feisty)0.04994624
indulgent (not sober)0.04864618
sheriff (not outlaw)0.04784625
meek (not bossy)0.04684641
loyal (not traitorous)0.04484921
angelic (not demonic)0.04264621
awkward (not charming)0.0384927
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.03634622
orderly (not chaotic)0.03454692
disarming (not creepy)0.03144635
intimate (not formal)0.02034834
lenient (not strict)0.0144727
obedient (not rebellious)0.01334833
low-tech (not high-tech)0.01092883
conventional (not creative)0.00844928
juvenile (not mature)0.00272683

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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