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Most eloquent or unpolished 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 "eloquent" to "unpolished". 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 "eloquent" is the same as 100/100 for "unpolished". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most eloquent characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.614Diane Lockhart (The Good Wife)
295.742Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
395.226Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
495.130Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
595.017Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
695.0277Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
794.4284Robert Ford (Westworld)
894.4479Astrid Leong-Teo (Crazy Rich Asians)
994.4260Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
1094.0653Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1193.98Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1293.8291Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1393.826Olivia Pope (Scandal)
1493.7309Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
1593.6310Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
1693.617Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso)
1793.617Cecil B. Heimerdinger (Arcane)
1893.4306Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1993.4250Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2092.938M (Tommorrow Never Dies)
2192.928Lady Jessica (Dune)
2292.773Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
2392.6506Eleanor Sung-Young (Crazy Rich Asians)
2492.4119Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
2592.3286Fleur Delacour (Harry Potter)

Most unpolished characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.419Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
295.1290Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
392.6415Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
492.523Darlene Snell (Ozark)
592.3318Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
691.8125Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
791.7311Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
891.3525Meredith Palmer (The Office)
991.1702Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1090.922Amos Burton (The Expanse)
1190.8324Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
1290.5278Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
1390.299Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1490.0252Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1589.737Lillian Kaushtupper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1689.545Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1789.252Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
1889.1167Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
1989.143Nux (Mad Max: Fury Road)
2088.8568Kevin Malone (The Office)
2188.649Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2288.627Pamela Poovey (Archer)
2388.130Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
2488.135Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
2587.7426Dennis Nedry (Jurassic Park)

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 eloquent<--->unpolished when aggregated at the character level.

  1. highbrow (not lowbrow) (r=0.85)
  2. refined (not rugged) (r=0.85)
  3. cultured (not rustic) (r=0.81)
  4. neat (not messy) (r=0.79)
  5. manicured (not scruffy) (r=0.79)
  6. valedictorian (not drop out) (r=0.78)
  7. hygienic (not gross) (r=0.75)
  8. washed (not muddy) (r=0.74)
  9. 🐩 (not 🐒) (r=0.74)
  10. big-vocabulary (not small-vocabulary) (r=0.74)

Notes

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