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

Most traditional characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.410John Dutton (Yellowstone)
294.1121Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
393.3253Eleanor Sung-Young (Crazy Rich Asians)
492.940Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
592.6111Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
692.663Alba Villanueva (Jane the Virgin)
792.29Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
892.022Michael Groff (Sex Education)
992.017Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
1091.517Huyang (Ahsoka)
1191.116Count Alexei Karenin (Anna Karenina)
1290.830Lieutenant Schrank (West Side Story)
1390.685Shirley Bennett (Community)
1490.329Javert (Les Misérables)
1590.165Queen Elizabeth II (The Crown)
1689.857Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
1789.1213Charlotte York (Sex and the City)
1888.97Rose Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1988.867Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives)
2088.7148Red Forman (That 70's Show)
2188.4418Angela Martin (The Office)
2288.2298James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)
2388.029Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
2487.998Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
2587.86Stan Beeman (The Americans)

Most unorthodox characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.077The Joker (The Dark Knight)
295.629Shawn Spencer (Psych)
395.578Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
495.318Pamela Poovey (Archer)
594.8173Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
694.67Hunter Aloysius Percy (The OA)
794.284Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
893.723Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
993.630Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1093.343Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
1193.2402Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
1293.134Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1392.724Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
1492.5167Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
1592.5136River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
1692.538Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1792.5193Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
1892.3339Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
1992.399Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2092.277Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
2192.1640April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
2292.016Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
2391.941Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
2491.88Prairie Johnson (The OA)
2591.7108Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)

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 traditional<--->unorthodox when aggregated at the character level.

  1. classical (not avant-garde) (r=0.86)
  2. conventional (not creative) (r=0.8)
  3. statist (not anarchist) (r=0.75)
  4. obedient (not rebellious) (r=0.75)
  5. routine (not innovative) (r=0.74)
  6. tame (not wild) (r=0.74)
  7. sheriff (not outlaw) (r=0.74)
  8. conformist (not maverick) (r=0.73)
  9. predictable (not quirky) (r=0.73)
  10. stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous) (r=0.73)

Notes

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