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Most penny-pincher or overspender 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 "penny-pincher" to "overspender". 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 "penny-pincher" is the same as 100/100 for "overspender". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most penny-pincher characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.745Mr. Krabs (SpongeBob SquarePants)
290.7304Red Forman (That 70's Show)
389.68Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
489.135Lois Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
588.7391Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
688.715Fern (Nomadland)
788.129Hermes Conrad (Futurama)
887.777Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
987.042Fantine (Les Misérables)
1086.9289Dwight Schrute (The Office)
1186.614Aimee Finecky (The Spectacular Now)
1286.355Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1386.161Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
1485.47Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
1585.317Monica Dutton (Yellowstone)
1685.010Nynaeve al'Meara (Wheel of Time)
1784.620Malyen Oretsev (Shadow and Bone)
1884.526Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
1984.443Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
2083.929Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
2183.9687Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)
2283.840Matt Saracen (Friday Night Lights)
2383.772Bob Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
2483.468Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
2583.227Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey)

Most overspender characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.119Jamie Tartt (Ted Lasso)
296.086Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
395.7105Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
494.224Hanna Marin (Pretty Little Liars)
593.782Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
693.5361Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
793.359Villanelle (Killing Eve)
893.3296Jackie Burkhart (That 70's Show)
993.2102Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1093.240Jacqueline White (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1192.424Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1292.3101Blair Waldorf (Gossip Girl)
1392.018Connor Roy (Succession)
1491.729Sharpay Evans (High School Musical)
1591.585Alexis Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1691.1519Regina George (Mean Girls)
1790.8498June George (Mean Girls)
1890.7329Tahani Al-Jamil (The Good Place)
1990.718Sterling Archer (Archer)
2090.6260Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
2190.598Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
2290.450Gabrielle Solis (Desperate Housewives)
2390.425Shannon Rutherford (LOST)
2490.497Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl)
2590.1312Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby)

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 penny-pincher<--->overspender when aggregated at the character level.

  1. frugal (not lavish) (r=0.84)
  2. thrifty (not extravagant) (r=0.77)
  3. modest (not flamboyant) (r=0.7)
  4. works hard (not plays hard) (r=0.64)
  5. 🧕 (not 💃) (r=0.63)
  6. sober (not indulgent) (r=0.63)
  7. spartan (not glamorous) (r=0.61)
  8. vintage (not trendy) (r=0.6)
  9. prudish (not flirtatious) (r=0.6)
  10. provincial (not cosmopolitan) (r=0.59)

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