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

Most wise characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.724Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
296.729Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
395.2610Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
495.229Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
595.235Optimus Prime (Transformers)
695.120Lagertha (Vikings)
794.717Dembe Zuma (The Blacklist)
894.0418Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
994.0107Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1093.5361Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
1193.5556Gandalf (Lord of the Rings)
1292.649El Profesor (Money Heist)
1392.5370Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
1492.252Professor X (X-Men)
1592.0449The Oracle (The Matrix)
1691.818Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
1791.8346Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1891.819Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time)
1991.820Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
2091.840Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2191.7221Carlisle Cullen (Twilight)
2291.682Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)
2391.627Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2491.426Joan Watson (Elementary)
2591.464Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)

Most foolish characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.1260Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
293.4492Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
392.8107Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
492.4371Lydia Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
592.189George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
691.835Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
791.8502Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
890.670The Deep (The Boys)
990.544Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1090.419Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
1190.342Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
1290.192Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1389.997Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1489.830Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1589.619David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
1689.3213Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1789.117Connor Roy (Succession)
1889.0162Prince John (Robin Hood)
1988.738Nate Jacobs (Euphoria)
2088.751Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
2188.2721Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
2288.2227Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
2388.275Denny (The Room)
2488.246Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
2587.8834Sid Phillips (Toy Story)

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 wise<--->foolish when aggregated at the character level.

  1. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.89)
  2. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.87)
  3. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.85)
  4. genius (not dunce) (r=0.83)
  5. accurate (not off target) (r=0.83)
  6. perceptive (not unobservant) (r=0.81)
  7. all-seeing (not blind) (r=0.8)
  8. high IQ (not low IQ) (r=0.79)
  9. tactful (not indiscreet) (r=0.79)
  10. enlightened (not lost) (r=0.79)

Notes

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