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

Most modern characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.060Alexis Rose (Schitt's Creek)
293.6749Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
393.615Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
493.449Haley Dunphy (Modern Family)
593.324Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
692.930F. Tony Scarapiducci (Space Force)
792.526Georgia Miller (Ginny & Georgia)
891.866David Rose (Schitt's Creek)
991.0313Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1090.9165Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1190.8485Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1290.423Eric Effiong (Sex Education)
1390.4131Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)
1490.2310Penny (The Big Bang Theory)
1590.2138Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1690.116Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
1789.9492Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1889.726Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1989.6388Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
2089.631Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2189.119Valencia Perez (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2288.813Alli Bhandari (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
2388.746Kevin Pearson (This Is Us)
2488.680Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
2588.442Emily Cooper (Emily in Paris)

Most historical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.654Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
292.719Junior Soprano (The Sopranos)
392.051King George III (Hamilton)
491.9213Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
591.620Cecil B. Heimerdinger (Arcane)
691.544Alastor (Hazbin Hotel)
791.321Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
890.623Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
990.3197Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1089.834Ser Otto Hightower (House of the Dragon)
1189.7710Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
1289.1438Dwight Schrute (The Office)
1388.834Ashley Wilkes (Gone With the Wind)
1488.024Taylor Doose (Gilmore Girls)
1587.841Javert (Les Misérables)
1687.7307Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1787.6191Mamá Coco (Coco)
1887.363Vitruvius (The Lego Movie)
1987.1279Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
2086.913Istredd (The Witcher)
2186.820Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans)
2286.827Beowulf (Beowulf)
2386.6140Akecheta (Westworld)
2486.614Thufir Hawat (Dune)
2586.6205Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)

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 modern<--->historical when aggregated at the character level.

  1. trendy (not vintage) (r=0.74)
  2. progressive (not old-fashioned) (r=0.66)
  3. young (not old) (r=0.61)
  4. 💃 (not 🧕) (r=0.52)
  5. avant-garde (not classical) (r=0.52)
  6. liberal (not conservative) (r=0.51)
  7. vibrant (not geriatric) (r=0.5)
  8. flirtatious (not prudish) (r=0.49)
  9. urban (not rural) (r=0.49)
  10. 👟 (not 🥾) (r=0.49)

Notes

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