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

Most impulsive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.819Sterling Archer (Archer)
296.7263Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
396.5135Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
496.421Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
596.251Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
696.029Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
795.8607Michael Scott (The Office)
895.539Jessa Johansson (Girls)
995.1468Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
1095.1102Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1194.6490Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
1294.630Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1394.6445Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
1494.553Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1594.1111Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
1694.1165Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1794.0427Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
1894.023Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1993.8173Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
2093.8140Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
2193.723Commodus (Gladiator)
2293.552Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
2393.474George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
2493.488John Bender (The Breakfast Club)
2593.433Philip J. Fry (Futurama)

Most cautious characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.421Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
293.81030C-3PO (Star Wars)
393.2155Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
492.713Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
591.7301Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
690.434Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
789.994Percy Becker (No Hard Feelings)
889.840Dr. Adrian Mallory (Space Force)
989.031Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1088.942El Profesor (Money Heist)
1188.3315Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1288.1166Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1388.141Huyang (Ahsoka)
1487.916Scorpius (Farscape)
1587.823Burton Guster (Psych)
1687.8485Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1787.8366Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
1887.719Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary)
1987.618Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
2087.556Columbus (Zombieland)
2187.513Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
2287.5444Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
2387.4382Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
2487.3379Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)
2587.3286Varys (Game of Thrones)

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 impulsive<--->cautious when aggregated at the character level.

  1. chaotic (not orderly) (r=0.86)
  2. instinctual (not reasoned) (r=0.86)
  3. spontaneous (not scheduled) (r=0.82)
  4. scandalous (not proper) (r=0.8)
  5. spontaneous (not deliberate) (r=0.79)
  6. tardy (not on-time) (r=0.78)
  7. wild (not tame) (r=0.77)
  8. indulgent (not sober) (r=0.77)
  9. juvenile (not mature) (r=0.76)
  10. bold (not serious) (r=0.76)

Notes

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