David A. Kenny
February 26, 2005
Kenny & Kenny: The Simpsons Chapter

This page contains supplementary information for the D. A. Kenny & D. T. Kenny "The Personalities of The Simpsons" which is a chapter in the book to be published by BenBella Press.

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The analysis was treated judge by character as the unit. Using the MIXED option in SPSS, both judge and character are treated as random factors. The variance due to character over the total variance (character, judge, residual plus error) was the measure of consensus. Analyses used an average of each Big Five trait.

We checked to see how much our judges agreed with one another. They all substantially agreed with each other, expect. The one who did not agree was my wife, Marina Julian. We exluded her data for the analyses presented in the paper.