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Virgin River characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of Virgin River. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What Virgin River 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 3 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
89.7Melinda Monroe
82.2Jack Sheridan
49.8John 'Preacher' Middleton

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 Virgin River?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 16
2 It's bad 36
3 It's okay 493
4 It's good 902
5 It's my favorite 122

This gives it an average score of 3.69 / 5. Making it 314th 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 3.35
Female 3.71

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
nurturing (not poisonous)0.21121605
angelic (not demonic)0.18091606
genuine (not sarcastic)0.13181606
sheriff (not outlaw)0.12381607
mature (not juvenile)0.12351618
orderly (not chaotic)0.12261605
reasonable (not deranged)0.11891618
blissful (not haunted)0.11271604
spiritual (not skeptical)0.11221605
loyal (not traitorous)0.11081608
altruistic (not selfish)0.10571605
slovenly (not stylish)0.09551606
disarming (not creepy)0.09021606
feminine (not masculine)0.08821619
obedient (not rebellious)0.08131609
tame (not wild)0.08061618
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.06211603
deep (not shallow)0.05251614
mainstream (not arcane)0.04781605
frugal (not lavish)0.03991606
nerd (not jock)0.03861612
sober (not indulgent)0.03531606
conventional (not creative)0.03461620
scientific (not artistic)0.03211614
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03021603
emotional (not logical)0.02941608
gracious (not feisty)0.02891602
social (not reclusive)0.01771605
intimate (not formal)0.0171602
charming (not awkward)0.01571613
fresh (not stinky)0.01521605
strict (not lenient)0.00731619
beta (not alpha)0.00581600
dunce (not genius)0.00391606
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.00291608
meek (not bossy)0.00051614

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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