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The Wire

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

Characters

The dataset has 30 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
95.4Omar Little
88.5Russell 'Stringer' Bell
86.8Lester Freamon
82.5Cedric Daniels
80.9Avon Barksdale
77.7Kima Greggs
77.7Bunk Moreland
77.2Jimmy McNulty
74.5Michael Lee
74.2Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins
72.1Rhonda Pearlman
71.1Dennis 'Cutty' Wise
69.8Ervin Burrell
68.3Chris Partlow
65.9Tommy Carcetti
65.6D'Angelo Barksdale
65.4Preston 'Bodie' Broadus
65.0Spiros 'Vondas' Vondopoulos
60.7Norman Wilson
58.3Clarence Royce
57.3Beatrice 'Beadie' Russell
54.0Clay Davis
52.6Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski
51.4Ellis Carver
48.9Frank Sobotka
48.5William Rawls
48.3Maurice Levy
45.5Thomas 'Herc' Hauk
38.7Nick Sobotka
37.1Ziggy Sobotka

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 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)0.19483249
skeptical (not spiritual)0.17353122
genius (not dunce)0.13313049
reasonable (not deranged)0.13293144
nurturing (not poisonous)0.12423016
nerd (not jock)0.12393027
scientific (not artistic)0.11672100
logical (not emotional)0.11463241
slovenly (not stylish)0.10723094
altruistic (not selfish)0.10523015
meek (not bossy)0.09483017
deep (not shallow)0.09163103
stinky (not fresh)0.08963021
angelic (not demonic)0.08743012
tame (not wild)0.08691993
genuine (not sarcastic)0.08692058
disarming (not creepy)0.08623126
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.08423018
lenient (not strict)0.07943170
conventional (not creative)0.07323138
frugal (not lavish)0.06783009
gracious (not feisty)0.0613013
beta (not alpha)0.05853019
arcane (not mainstream)0.05683132
orderly (not chaotic)0.05393048
loyal (not traitorous)0.05173247
indulgent (not sober)0.04383017
sheriff (not outlaw)0.02883010
intimate (not formal)0.02833096
blissful (not haunted)0.02751977
high-tech (not low-tech)0.02322057
reclusive (not social)0.01983021
charming (not awkward)0.01433134
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.01393021
obedient (not rebellious)0.00583093
juvenile (not mature)0.00481843

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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