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

Most creative characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.114Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
296.136Eric Effiong (Sex Education)
395.9369Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
495.027Lily Iglehart (Sex Education)
594.7216Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
694.715Powder (Arcane)
794.61234Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
894.623Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
994.6376The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1094.010Miriam Maisel (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1193.628Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)
1293.658Jess Day (New Girl)
1393.533Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1493.31218Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean)
1592.843Rapunzel (Tangled)
1692.622Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1792.430Angela Montenegro (Bones)
1892.4422Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
1992.283Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
2092.048Frank Abagnale (Catch Me If You Can)
2192.050Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls)
2292.037Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2391.926Floki (Vikings)
2491.949Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
2591.8115Abby Sciuto (NCIS)

Most conventional characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.09Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
294.1352Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
392.9315Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
492.7465Red Forman (That 70's Show)
592.633Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
692.639Javert (Les Misérables)
792.1297Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
891.0104Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
990.0589Angela Martin (The Office)
1089.627Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1189.4309Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
1289.430Lieutenant Schrank (West Side Story)
1389.040Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1488.71039James Norrington (Pirates of the Caribbean)
1588.642Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
1688.515Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1788.535Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1888.457Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption)
1988.09Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
2088.0448Principal Skinner (The Simpsons)
2187.732Brad Bellick (Prison Break)
2287.6210Walter Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
2387.531Jim Burns (The Fall)
2487.3121Cal Hockley (Titanic)
2587.381Topper (Outer Banks)

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 creative<--->conventional when aggregated at the character level.

  1. open to new experinces (not uncreative) (r=0.82)
  2. unorthodox (not traditional) (r=0.8)
  3. innovative (not routine) (r=0.8)
  4. quirky (not predictable) (r=0.78)
  5. hipster (not basic) (r=0.76)
  6. adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud) (r=0.75)
  7. avant-garde (not classical) (r=0.74)
  8. abstract (not concrete) (r=0.74)
  9. imaginative (not practical) (r=0.73)
  10. freelance (not corporate) (r=0.71)

Notes

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