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The West Wing 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 West Wing. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The West Wing 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
91.05Josiah Bartlet
85.3Josh Lyman
76.3Leo McGarry
74.2C. J. Cregg
71.6Sam Seaborn
65.65Toby Ziegler
61.05Charlie Young
58.7Abbey Bartlet
55.2Donna Moss
48.45Joey Lucas

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 West Wing?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 23
2 It's bad 28
3 It's okay 230
4 It's good 1117
5 It's my favorite 713

This gives it an average score of 4.17 / 5. Making it 24th 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 4.16
Female 4.17

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
nerd (not jock)0.17842205
genius (not dunce)0.17472217
disarming (not creepy)0.14522203
reasonable (not deranged)0.13262201
orderly (not chaotic)0.11492217
nurturing (not poisonous)0.11062202
sheriff (not outlaw)0.10942196
mature (not juvenile)0.10861635
deep (not shallow)0.10572239
angelic (not demonic)0.10292196
bossy (not meek)0.09112201
obedient (not rebellious)0.08422230
loyal (not traitorous)0.08322254
ivory-tower (not blue-collar)0.08232195
scientific (not artistic)0.07991687
tame (not wild)0.07761645
genuine (not sarcastic)0.07611671
conventional (not creative)0.06932254
logical (not emotional)0.06342248
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.06112201
indulgent (not sober)0.06022199
skeptical (not spiritual)0.05942241
strict (not lenient)0.04892222
mainstream (not arcane)0.04312199
altruistic (not selfish)0.04242201
alpha (not beta)0.02942200
blissful (not haunted)0.02131631
intimate (not formal)0.01892234
social (not reclusive)0.0152199
charming (not awkward)0.01362246
low-tech (not high-tech)0.01271671
feisty (not gracious)0.01122197
stinky (not fresh)0.01112201
feminine (not masculine)0.00942255
frugal (not lavish)0.00492196
slovenly (not stylish)0.0012233

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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