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The Office 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 Office. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Office 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 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
87.75Michael Scott
84.5Jim Halpert
76.0Dwight Schrute
74.65Pam Beesly
45.4Stanley Hudson
43.85Kelly Kapoor
42.4Angela Martin
39.7Andy Bernard
37.7Kevin Malone
37.1Jan Levinson
34.75Robert California
33.85Phyllis Lapin
27.4Kelly Erin Hannon
25.8Meredith Palmer
25.75Ryan Howard

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 33
2 It's bad 75
3 It's okay 1688
4 It's good 6690
5 It's my favorite 3518

This gives it an average score of 4.13 / 5. Making it 42nd 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 4.12
Female 4.13

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
reasonable (not deranged)0.077412536
angelic (not demonic)0.074812374
sheriff (not outlaw)0.072712391
blissful (not haunted)0.07139234
loyal (not traitorous)0.067112746
nurturing (not poisonous)0.065112387
fresh (not stinky)0.060612388
orderly (not chaotic)0.053312550
obedient (not rebellious)0.051912507
mainstream (not arcane)0.049912424
tame (not wild)0.04319368
deep (not shallow)0.040212639
spiritual (not skeptical)0.039212663
mature (not juvenile)0.03569251
charming (not awkward)0.035112773
strict (not lenient)0.032912708
genius (not dunce)0.030712544
feminine (not masculine)0.028812835
altruistic (not selfish)0.028712392
lavish (not frugal)0.028312349
social (not reclusive)0.024312389
disarming (not creepy)0.023412441
gracious (not feisty)0.023112380
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02229370
scientific (not artistic)0.02229652
jock (not nerd)0.021812492
alpha (not beta)0.019712353
stylish (not slovenly)0.016812527
bossy (not meek)0.013712491
conventional (not creative)0.013712787
intimate (not formal)0.012712522
genuine (not sarcastic)0.00789398
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00712341
sober (not indulgent)0.004612383
logical (not emotional)0.004512716
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.004112399

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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