The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz includes characters from the fictional universe of The Wire.
| Notability | Name |
|---|---|
| 95.4 | Omar Little |
| 88.5 | Russell 'Stringer' Bell |
| 86.8 | Lester Freamon |
| 82.5 | Cedric Daniels |
| 80.9 | Avon Barksdale |
| 77.7 | Kima Greggs |
| 77.7 | Bunk Moreland |
| 77.2 | Jimmy McNulty |
| 74.5 | Michael Lee |
| 74.2 | Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins |
| 72.1 | Rhonda Pearlman |
| 71.1 | Dennis 'Cutty' Wise |
| 69.8 | Ervin Burrell |
| 68.3 | Chris Partlow |
| 65.9 | Tommy Carcetti |
| 65.6 | D'Angelo Barksdale |
| 65.4 | Preston 'Bodie' Broadus |
| 65.0 | Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos |
| 60.7 | Norman Wilson |
| 58.3 | Clarence Royce |
| 57.3 | Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell |
| 54.0 | Clay Davis |
| 52.6 | Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski |
| 51.4 | Ellis Carver |
| 48.9 | Frank Sobotka |
| 48.5 | William Rawls |
| 48.3 | Maurice Levy |
| 45.5 | Thomas 'Herc' Hauk |
| 38.7 | Nick Sobotka |
| 37.1 | Ziggy Sobotka |
To see how each character was rated by users, view their individual page.
As part of the survey where they rated characters, users were also asked the question "How do you rate The Wire?". The distribution of their responses are below.
| # | Response | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | It's the worst | 40 |
| 2 | It's bad | 25 |
| 3 | It's okay | 299 |
| 4 | It's good | 1611 |
| 5 | It's my favorite | 1159 |
This gives it an average score of 4.22 / 5. Making it 14th 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 | 4.37 |
| Female | 3.98 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| masculine (not feminine) | 0.1948 | 3249 |
| skeptical (not spiritual) | 0.1735 | 3122 |
| genius (not dunce) | 0.1331 | 3049 |
| reasonable (not deranged) | 0.1329 | 3144 |
| nurturing (not poisonous) | 0.1242 | 3016 |
| nerd (not jock) | 0.1239 | 3027 |
| scientific (not artistic) | 0.1167 | 2100 |
| logical (not emotional) | 0.1146 | 3241 |
| slovenly (not stylish) | 0.1072 | 3094 |
| altruistic (not selfish) | 0.1052 | 3015 |
| meek (not bossy) | 0.0948 | 3017 |
| deep (not shallow) | 0.0916 | 3103 |
| stinky (not fresh) | 0.0896 | 3021 |
| angelic (not demonic) | 0.0874 | 3012 |
| tame (not wild) | 0.0869 | 1993 |
| genuine (not sarcastic) | 0.0869 | 2058 |
| disarming (not creepy) | 0.0862 | 3126 |
| stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous) | 0.0842 | 3018 |
| lenient (not strict) | 0.0794 | 3170 |
| conventional (not creative) | 0.0732 | 3138 |
| frugal (not lavish) | 0.0678 | 3009 |
| gracious (not feisty) | 0.061 | 3013 |
| beta (not alpha) | 0.0585 | 3019 |
| arcane (not mainstream) | 0.0568 | 3132 |
| orderly (not chaotic) | 0.0539 | 3048 |
| loyal (not traitorous) | 0.0517 | 3247 |
| indulgent (not sober) | 0.0438 | 3017 |
| sheriff (not outlaw) | 0.0288 | 3010 |
| intimate (not formal) | 0.0283 | 3096 |
| blissful (not haunted) | 0.0275 | 1977 |
| high-tech (not low-tech) | 0.0232 | 2057 |
| reclusive (not social) | 0.0198 | 3021 |
| charming (not awkward) | 0.0143 | 3134 |
| ivory-tower (not blue-collar) | 0.0139 | 3021 |
| obedient (not rebellious) | 0.0058 | 3093 |
| juvenile (not mature) | 0.0048 | 1843 |
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: