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

Most linear characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.010Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
290.411Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
388.211Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
484.449Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
584.020Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
683.667Angela Martin (The Office)
783.4108Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
883.055Red Forman (That 70's Show)
982.782Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1082.724Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
1181.727Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1281.6111Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1381.323Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary)
1481.1150Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1580.861Claire (Fleabag)
1680.48John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
1780.26Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
1879.5101Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1979.526Bill Tench (Mindhunter)
2079.441Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption)
2179.237Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2279.285Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2379.048Agent Smith (The Matrix)
2479.027Henry Francis (Mad Men)
2578.829Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)

Most circular characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
185.3134Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
284.137Crazy Eyes (Orange is the New Black)
382.935Shawn Spencer (Psych)
482.930Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
582.812Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
682.121Lily Iglehart (Sex Education)
781.9141Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
881.665Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
981.656Jessa Johansson (Girls)
1081.340Eric Cartman (South Park)
1181.213Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
1280.840Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1380.829Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1480.337Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
1579.816Roman Roy (Succession)
1679.738Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1779.729Annie Hall (Annie Hall)
1879.723Jimmy McNulty (The Wire)
1979.729Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
2079.729Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)
2179.353Cameron Tucker (Modern Family)
2279.0163Olaf (Frozen)
2378.9160Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
2478.632Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
2578.535Clementine Kruczynski (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

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 linear<--->circular when aggregated at the character level.

  1. concrete (not abstract) (r=0.76)
  2. practical (not imaginative) (r=0.74)
  3. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.69)
  4. tight (not loose) (r=0.69)
  5. formal (not intimate) (r=0.69)
  6. scheduled (not spontaneous) (r=0.69)
  7. serious (not bold) (r=0.69)
  8. methodical (not astonishing) (r=0.68)
  9. orderly (not chaotic) (r=0.68)
  10. deliberate (not spontaneous) (r=0.68)

Notes

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