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

Most alert characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.715Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
296.49Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
395.717Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
494.836Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
594.853Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
694.820Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
794.610Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
894.523Lana Kane (Archer)
994.111Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time)
1094.019Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)
1193.322Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1293.234Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
1393.218Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1493.227Jack Traven (Speed)
1592.823Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
1692.425Maeve Millay (Westworld)
1792.457Varys (Game of Thrones)
1892.417Philip Jennings (The Americans)
1992.282Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
2092.212Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire)
2192.227Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
2292.083Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
2391.921Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2491.926John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
2591.830the Alien (Alien)

Most oblivious characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.913Spike (The Land Before Time)
294.026Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
393.659Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
493.2222Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
593.1361Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
692.839Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
792.8118Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
892.7205Kevin Malone (The Office)
992.6362Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
1090.857Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1190.522Connor Roy (Succession)
1289.9123Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1389.89Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
1489.7183Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
1589.622Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1689.433Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1789.329Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
1889.3233Brittany Pierce (Glee)
1989.1204Michael Scott (The Office)
2088.470Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
2188.328Denny (The Room)
2287.910Lenny (After Life)
2387.881Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
2487.7531Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
2587.6196Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)

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 alert<--->oblivious when aggregated at the character level.

  1. perceptive (not unobservant) (r=0.86)
  2. focused (not absentminded) (r=0.81)
  3. coordinated (not clumsy) (r=0.81)
  4. resourceful (not helpless) (r=0.8)
  5. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.79)
  6. pro (not noob) (r=0.78)
  7. genius (not dunce) (r=0.78)
  8. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.77)
  9. wise (not foolish) (r=0.77)
  10. accurate (not off target) (r=0.77)

Notes

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