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The Office

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

Characters

The dataset has 15 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
85.9Jim Halpert
80.8Dwight Schrute
80.4Pam Beesly
79.0Michael Scott
63.3Stanley Hudson
54.6Angela Martin
51.0Kevin Malone
48.3Phyllis Lapin
45.8Kelly Kapoor
40.4Andy Bernard
39.7Jan Levinson
39.0Kelly Erin Hannon
35.5Ryan Howard
34.0Meredith Palmer
32.4Robert California

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 28
2 It's bad 65
3 It's okay 1356
4 It's good 5410
5 It's my favorite 2905

This gives it an average score of 4.14 / 5. Making it 42nd 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 4.14
Female 4.14

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
sheriff (not outlaw)0.078410070
loyal (not traitorous)0.073810387
reasonable (not deranged)0.073210195
nurturing (not poisonous)0.07210062
angelic (not demonic)0.070710055
fresh (not stinky)0.066810061
blissful (not haunted)0.06656916
orderly (not chaotic)0.059810194
obedient (not rebellious)0.053110184
mainstream (not arcane)0.051410092
mature (not juvenile)0.04186912
strict (not lenient)0.041710334
deep (not shallow)0.037110289
spiritual (not skeptical)0.037110306
tame (not wild)0.03697026
charming (not awkward)0.034310396
altruistic (not selfish)0.032410069
genius (not dunce)0.031410191
high-tech (not low-tech)0.03087053
jock (not nerd)0.027310150
gracious (not feisty)0.027110055
disarming (not creepy)0.024110119
lavish (not frugal)0.02410028
alpha (not beta)0.023810035
feminine (not masculine)0.023710460
social (not reclusive)0.020610069
scientific (not artistic)0.01957278
genuine (not sarcastic)0.01927074
conventional (not creative)0.017610404
stylish (not slovenly)0.013810205
bossy (not meek)0.012210146
logical (not emotional)0.010810363
intimate (not formal)0.008810200
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.006610072
sober (not indulgent)0.004110058
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.002410023

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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