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Most cosmopolitan or provincial characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,125 characters on a 100 point scale from "cosmopolitan" to "provincial". This page lists the 25 characters whose average ratings were the farthest to either side. Because the scale is bipolar, it is reversable. For example, a rating of 1/100 for "cosmopolitan" is the same as 100/100 for "provincial". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most cosmopolitan characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.8599Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
292.2127Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
391.9569Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)
491.8117Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
590.914Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
689.9293Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
789.880Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
889.082Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
988.819Sterling Archer (Archer)
1088.899Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1188.672Alexis Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1288.4345Astrid Leong-Teo (Crazy Rich Asians)
1387.962Cece Parekh (New Girl)
1487.719Patty Hewes (Damages)
1587.6231Joan Holloway (Mad Men)
1687.634Tanya Chesham-Leigh (Mamma Mia!)
1787.487Gabrielle Solis (Desperate Housewives)
1887.1904Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
1987.197Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
2086.6931Effie Trinket (The Hunger Games)
2186.3243Shannon Rutherford (LOST)
2286.3663Regina George (Mean Girls)
2386.226Lito Rodriguez (Sense8)
2486.1489Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
2586.0219Salvatore Romano (Mad Men)

Most provincial characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
190.9145Pete Martell (Twin Peaks)
290.5147Sheriff Truman (Twin Peaks)
389.8138Ed Hurley (Twin Peaks)
489.6274Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey)
589.0132Frank Sobotka (The Wire)
688.332Darlene Snell (Ozark)
787.820Sancho Panza (Don Quixote)
887.6889Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
986.5223Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
1086.4510Dwight Schrute (The Office)
1186.4249Teddy Flood (Westworld)
1286.111Monica Dutton (Yellowstone)
1385.9458Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
1485.295Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
1584.811Lenny (After Life)
1684.0100Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
1783.730Nux (Mad Max: Fury Road)
1883.492Nick Sobotka (The Wire)
1983.439Ennis Del Mar (Brokeback Mountain)
2083.3254Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
2183.325Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
2283.2197Akecheta (Westworld)
2383.214Quint (Jaws)
2482.935Mammy (Gone With the Wind)
2582.9388Red Forman (That 70's Show)

Similar features

The survey has 525 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with cosmopolitan<--->provincial when aggregated at the character level.

  1. city-slicker (not country-bumpkin) (r=0.75)
  2. urban (not rural) (r=0.73)
  3. lavish (not frugal) (r=0.71)
  4. stylish (not slovenly) (r=0.71)
  5. glamorous (not spartan) (r=0.69)
  6. extravagant (not thrifty) (r=0.69)
  7. ivory-tower (not blue-collar) (r=0.68)
  8. bourgeoisie (not proletariat) (r=0.65)
  9. cultured (not rustic) (r=0.64)
  10. rich (not poor) (r=0.59)

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