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Most captain or first-mate 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 "captain" to "first-mate". 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 "captain" is the same as 100/100 for "first-mate". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most captain characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.116Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
298.1389Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly + Serenity)
397.4109William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
497.122Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
596.218Olivia Pope (Scandal)
696.2244Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
795.9130Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
895.614Patty Hewes (Damages)
995.523Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1095.511Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1195.496Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
1295.428Karen Vick (Psych)
1395.063Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
1495.06Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1594.991Billy Butcher (The Boys)
1694.919Rebecca Welton (Ted Lasso)
1794.812Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1894.834Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
1994.7123Omar Little (The Wire)
2094.625Sylvie Grateau (Emily in Paris)
2194.324Rowan Pope (Scandal)
2294.265George Washington (Hamilton)
2394.123Logan Roy (Succession)
2494.084Sue Sylvester (Glee)
2594.0465Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

Most first-mate characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.573Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
293.525Gary Walsh (Veep)
393.3245Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
492.913Itaru Hashida (Steins;Gate)
592.520Mike McLintock (Veep)
692.3406Milhouse Van Houten (The Simpsons)
792.220Tom Wambsgans (Succession)
891.7370Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
991.4227Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1091.495George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1190.9284Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1290.711Alex Kamal (The Expanse)
1390.711Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
1490.423Touta Matsuda (Death Note)
1590.41130C-3PO (Star Wars)
1690.221Jimmy Hurdstrom (Yellowstone)
1789.7576Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
1889.719Kirk Gleason (Gilmore Girls)
1989.530Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
2089.2200Morty Smith (Rick and Morty)
2189.263Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly (M*A*S*H)
2289.2143Little John (Robin Hood)
2389.068Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
2488.6610Kevin Malone (The Office)
2588.530William Riker (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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 captain<--->first-mate when aggregated at the character level.

  1. leader (not follower) (r=0.87)
  2. alpha (not beta) (r=0.83)
  3. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.79)
  4. bossy (not meek) (r=0.75)
  5. master (not apprentice) (r=0.74)
  6. assertive (not passive) (r=0.73)
  7. lion (not zebra) (r=0.71)
  8. decisive (not hesitant) (r=0.68)
  9. demanding (not unchallenging) (r=0.68)
  10. entrepreneur (not employee) (r=0.66)

Notes

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