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

Most philosophical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.015Tycho Brahe (Penny Arcade)
289.221Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
387.9146Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
485.7214Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones)
585.069Vitruvius (The Lego Movie)
684.718Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
784.320Light Yagami (Death Note)
883.824Dean Armitage (Get Out)
983.2415The Oracle (The Matrix)
1082.7166Robert Ford (Westworld)
1182.5205Melisandre (Game of Thrones)
1282.027Lily Iglehart (Sex Education)
1381.8189John Locke (LOST)
1481.6298Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
1581.4406Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1681.324Prince Hamlet (Hamlet)
1780.926Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
1880.548Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
1980.343Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
2080.119Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
2180.122Prairie Johnson (The OA)
2280.174Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
2379.516Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
2479.2189Mal Cobb (Inception)
2578.9225Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)

Most real characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.729Amos Burton (The Expanse)
292.121Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
390.414Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
489.5248Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
589.0359Red Forman (That 70's Show)
688.733Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
788.092Billy Butcher (The Boys)
887.97Danny Reagan (Blue Bloods)
987.7102Santana Lopez (Glee)
1087.733Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
1187.124Melissa Schemmenti (Abbott Elementary)
1286.3198Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey)
1386.2315Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1486.1447Alex Karev (Grey's Anatomy)
1586.178Veronica Fisher (Shameless)
1686.114Gemma Teller Morrow (Sons of Anarchy)
1786.110John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)
1885.723Dina Fox (Superstore)
1985.5409Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
2085.223John McClane (Die Hard)
2185.164Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
2285.0180Joel Miller (The Last of Us)
2385.0154Jack O'Neill (Stargate SG-1)
2485.0753Han Solo (Star Wars)
2584.920Jack Traven (Speed)

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 philosophical<--->real when aggregated at the character level.

  1. metaphorical (not literal) (r=0.62)
  2. cryptic (not straightforward) (r=0.53)
  3. 🎨 (not 🏀) (r=0.5)
  4. poetic (not factual) (r=0.49)
  5. theoretical (not empirical) (r=0.48)
  6. idealist (not realist) (r=0.46)
  7. bookish (not sporty) (r=0.45)
  8. fantastical (not realistic) (r=0.44)
  9. abstract (not concrete) (r=0.44)
  10. mad-scientist (not lumberjack) (r=0.43)

Notes

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