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

Most resolute characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.718Mikasa Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
294.533Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
394.331Maximus (Gladiator)
494.3114Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
594.115Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
693.721Cassie Thomas (Promising Young Woman)
793.712Scorpius (Farscape)
893.616Lester Freamon (The Wire)
993.623William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
1093.626Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1193.528Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1293.422Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
1392.617Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
1492.524Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1592.320Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time)
1692.319Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1792.261Stormfront (The Boys)
1891.865John Wick (John Wick)
1991.623Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
2091.416Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2191.421Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
2291.324T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
2391.195The Operative (Firefly + Serenity)
2491.034Temperance Brennan (Bones)
2590.513James Greer (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan)

Most wavering characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
185.137Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
284.228Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer)
384.218Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
483.716Jeff Portnoy (Tropic Thunder)
583.514Greg Hirsch (Succession)
683.225Mike McLintock (Veep)
781.123Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
880.529Susan Mayer (Desperate Housewives)
980.247Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1078.824Nathan Shelley (Ted Lasso)
1178.018Tom Wambsgans (Succession)
1277.819Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1377.418Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
1477.451Charlie Cheswick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1577.312Jamie Dutton (Yellowstone)
1677.253Leopold 'Butters' Stotch (South Park)
1776.520A.J. Soprano (The Sopranos)
1876.333Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1976.117Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
2076.022Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
2175.929Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman)
2275.589Pete Hornberger (30 Rock)
2375.043Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2474.914James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
2574.914Matt Braden (After Life)

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 resolute<--->wavering when aggregated at the character level.

  1. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.82)
  2. firm (not shaky) (r=0.8)
  3. resourceful (not helpless) (r=0.77)
  4. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.74)
  5. coordinated (not clumsy) (r=0.74)
  6. focused (not absentminded) (r=0.73)
  7. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.73)
  8. decisive (not hesitant) (r=0.73)
  9. high standards (not desperate) (r=0.72)
  10. pro (not noob) (r=0.72)

Notes

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