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The X-Files 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 X-Files. The SWCPQ can operate as a "What The X-Files 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
88.7Fox Mulder
83.9Dana Scully
40.7Walter Skinner

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 X-Files?". The distribution of their responses are below.

# Response Count
1 It's the worst 16
2 It's bad 4
3 It's okay 274
4 It's good 1032
5 It's my favorite 395

This gives it an average score of 4.04 / 5. Making it 88th 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 4.03
Female 4.04

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)0.1321847
haunted (not blissful)0.09811555
arcane (not mainstream)0.09281846
low-tech (not high-tech)0.07581583
lenient (not strict)0.06261884
reclusive (not social)0.06031844
mature (not juvenile)0.05791540
indulgent (not sober)0.05391836
altruistic (not selfish)0.05371842
tame (not wild)0.05141570
awkward (not charming)0.0481906
creative (not conventional)0.04611907
blue-collar (not ivory-tower)0.04441832
loyal (not traitorous)0.04331904
meek (not bossy)0.04251846
frugal (not lavish)0.0421832
reasonable (not deranged)0.03991851
genius (not dunce)0.03671864
intimate (not formal)0.0341867
nurturing (not poisonous)0.03341838
outlaw (not sheriff)0.03131836
stinky (not fresh)0.02831842
genuine (not sarcastic)0.02751587
stylish (not slovenly)0.02681863
angelic (not demonic)0.02671829
disarming (not creepy)0.0261842
beta (not alpha)0.02471835
artistic (not scientific)0.02321623
stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous)0.0191840
chaotic (not orderly)0.01811872
deep (not shallow)0.01631876
rebellious (not obedient)0.01171867
spiritual (not skeptical)0.01111888
emotional (not logical)0.00831900
feminine (not masculine)0.00531914
gracious (not feisty)0.00451837

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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