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Veep

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

Characters

The dataset has 6 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
81.9Selina Meyer
63.4Dan Egan
60.4Amy Brookheimer
46.0Gary Walsh
26.3Mike McLintock
24.9Jonah Ryan

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

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 3
2 It's bad 5
3 It's okay 87
4 It's good 734
5 It's my favorite 254

This gives it an average score of 4.14 / 5. Making it 43rd 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 4.12
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
disarming (not creepy)0.14151105
angelic (not demonic)0.11321104
nurturing (not poisonous)0.09261105
sheriff (not outlaw)0.08751107
obedient (not rebellious)0.08651117
tame (not wild)0.0845817
scientific (not artistic)0.082844
nerd (not jock)0.07771109
beta (not alpha)0.07571107
indulgent (not sober)0.07251105
genuine (not sarcastic)0.0668830
skeptical (not spiritual)0.0631131
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.05971104
reasonable (not deranged)0.0561109
gracious (not feisty)0.05331105
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.04861104
meek (not bossy)0.04611103
mature (not juvenile)0.044805
conventional (not creative)0.04041136
orderly (not chaotic)0.03651120
genius (not dunce)0.03611120
lenient (not strict)0.03461123
lavish (not frugal)0.02671106
arcane (not mainstream)0.02621108
formal (not intimate)0.02411118
social (not reclusive)0.02271104
low-tech (not high-tech)0.0224824
deep (not shallow)0.01671123
emotional (not logical)0.01571137
loyal (not traitorous)0.01561135
altruistic (not selfish)0.01561103
feminine (not masculine)0.01311139
stinky (not fresh)0.00511106
charming (not awkward)0.00281135
slovenly (not stylish)0.00211120
blissful (not haunted)0.0013815

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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