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The Walking Dead characters personality data for the Statistical Quiz

The dataset of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz (SWCPQ) includes characters from the fictional universe of The Walking Dead. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The Walking Dead 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 10 characters from this universe. They are ordered in the list below by their notability (see Note 1).

Notability Name
91.45Rick Grimes
87.15Daryl Dixon
72.2Glenn Rhee
68.6Carol Peletier
65.45Carl Grimes
41.6Shane Walsh
34.95Andrea
33.75Dale Horvath
30.45Merle Dixon
23.8Lori Grimes

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 The Walking Dead?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 38
2 It's bad 108
3 It's okay 1847
4 It's good 3761
5 It's my favorite 1611

This gives it an average score of 3.92 / 5. Making it 174th 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 3.74
Female 3.97

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
feminine (not masculine)0.06787843
spiritual (not skeptical)0.04927717
sober (not indulgent)0.04847573
sarcastic (not genuine)0.03816679
low-tech (not high-tech)0.03236654
poisonous (not nurturing)0.0327579
reclusive (not social)0.03167586
jock (not nerd)0.02957667
loyal (not traitorous)0.02727749
bossy (not meek)0.0267658
emotional (not logical)0.02557758
deep (not shallow)0.02547726
fresh (not stinky)0.0237580
feisty (not gracious)0.02257566
artistic (not scientific)0.02226849
creepy (not disarming)0.02177608
awkward (not charming)0.01847817
altruistic (not selfish)0.01787579
wild (not tame)0.01756713
adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud)0.01727585
dunce (not genius)0.01697668
frugal (not lavish)0.01697544
strict (not lenient)0.01517787
stylish (not slovenly)0.01497632
orderly (not chaotic)0.01167663
alpha (not beta)0.00977559
intimate (not formal)0.00917639
conventional (not creative)0.00767814
mature (not juvenile)0.00736611
rebellious (not obedient)0.00657629
deranged (not reasonable)0.00557694
sheriff (not outlaw)0.00437572
haunted (not blissful)0.00426612
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.00137543
demonic (not angelic)0.00047573
mainstream (not arcane)0.07584

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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