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

Most scandalous characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.928Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
297.114Alexander 'Tig' Trager (Sons of Anarchy)
397.132Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
495.689Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
595.251Eric Cartman (South Park)
694.677Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
794.630Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
894.1306The Joker (The Dark Knight)
993.576John Bender (The Breakfast Club)
1093.4787Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1193.210Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
1293.2320Krusty the Clown (The Simpsons)
1393.1222Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
1492.9947Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
1592.754Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1692.5336Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
1792.5592Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1892.533Han Mi-nyeo (Squid Game)
1992.4341Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
2092.3121Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men)
2192.317Roman Roy (Succession)
2292.1223Ben Chang (Community)
2392.179Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2492.048Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Prison Break)
2591.729Denny Crane (Boston Legal)

Most proper characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.118Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
294.8258Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
392.723Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
492.76Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods)
592.684Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
692.5948C-3PO (Star Wars)
792.2293Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
891.732Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
991.733Richard Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1091.4276Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1191.4335Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
1290.925M (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1390.6180George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
1490.498Donald Mallard (NCIS)
1590.4615Charlotte York (Sex and the City)
1690.312Henry Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1790.2115Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1890.2274Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1990.2147Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2089.938Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind)
2189.923Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2289.91471Mufasa (The Lion King)
2389.822Calvin's dad (Calvin and Hobbes)
2489.625Sailor Mercury (Sailor Moon)
2589.6221Jane Bennet (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 scandalous<--->proper when aggregated at the character level.

  1. mischievous (not well behaved) (r=0.91)
  2. chaotic (not orderly) (r=0.85)
  3. inappropriate (not seemly) (r=0.85)
  4. edgy (not politically correct) (r=0.85)
  5. wild (not tame) (r=0.84)
  6. heathen (not devout) (r=0.82)
  7. indulgent (not sober) (r=0.82)
  8. bad-manners (not good-manners) (r=0.81)
  9. barbaric (not civilized) (r=0.81)
  10. outlaw (not sheriff) (r=0.8)

Notes

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