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

Most utilitarian characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.916Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
294.929Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
391.555Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
491.1624Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
590.416Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
690.415O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
789.817Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
889.748William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
989.4118The Operative (Firefly + Serenity)
1088.812Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
1188.511Jim Holden (The Expanse)
1288.332Frank Sobotka (The Wire)
1388.311Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
1488.015Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan)
1587.811Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1687.621Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)
1787.229Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1887.150Saul Tigh (Battlestar Galactica)
1987.0169Ellen Ripley (Alien)
2086.528T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
2186.424Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2286.430Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2386.220Scorpius (Farscape)
2486.1382Dwight Schrute (The Office)
2586.0113Sandor Clegane (Game of Thrones)

Most decorative characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.245Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
291.116Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
389.671David Rose (Schitt's Creek)
489.266Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
589.223Eric Effiong (Sex Education)
689.041Cameron Tucker (Modern Family)
787.833Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)
887.765Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
987.7587Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
1087.6246Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1187.468Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1287.0114Kurt Hummel (Glee)
1386.8340Effie Trinket (The Hunger Games)
1486.892Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
1586.2101Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1685.5172Carrie Bradshaw (Sex and the City)
1785.48Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1885.171Alexis Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1985.093Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
2085.024John Willoughby (Sense and Sensibility)
2184.733Oliver Putnam (Only Murders in the Building)
2284.627Mateo Liwanag (Superstore)
2384.4550June George (Mean Girls)
2483.825Lily Iglehart (Sex Education)
2583.634Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)

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 utilitarian<--->decorative when aggregated at the character level.

  1. spartan (not glamorous) (r=0.7)
  2. stoic (not expressive) (r=0.68)
  3. 🐴 (not 🦄) (r=0.67)
  4. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.67)
  5. scientific (not artistic) (r=0.67)
  6. flat (not bubbly) (r=0.66)
  7. serious (not playful) (r=0.65)
  8. practical (not imaginative) (r=0.65)
  9. no-nonsense (not dramatic) (r=0.64)
  10. chortling (not giggling) (r=0.63)

Notes

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