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

Most perceptive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.138Shawn Spencer (Psych)
298.56Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
397.445Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
497.232Maeve Millay (Westworld)
597.229Verna (The Fall of the House of Usher)
697.019Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
796.629Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
896.522Lester Freamon (The Wire)
996.447Olivia Pope (Scandal)
1096.0147Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
1196.019Rust Cohle (True Detective)
1295.985Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
1395.616Omar Little (The Wire)
1495.563Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
1595.546Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1695.3116Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1795.221Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
1895.227Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
1995.116Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time)
2095.040Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2195.079Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
2294.839Donna Paulsen (Suits)
2394.5113Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2494.433Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2594.438Donald Mallard (NCIS)

Most unobservant characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.011Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
290.337Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
388.537Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
488.371Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
588.023Jules Louden (The Cabin in the Woods)
686.939Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
786.050Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
885.526Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
984.741Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1084.67Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night)
1183.753Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1283.633George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
1383.533Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
1482.914Connie Springer (Attack on Titan)
1582.829Cyndee Pokorny (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1682.856Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
1782.769Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1882.637Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1982.630Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
2082.520Connor Roy (Succession)
2182.272Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
2282.138Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
2382.071Kevin Malone (The Office)
2481.735Choi Yeon-gyo (Parasite)
2581.413Lenny (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 perceptive<--->unobservant when aggregated at the character level.

  1. genius (not dunce) (r=0.86)
  2. alert (not oblivious) (r=0.86)
  3. high IQ (not low IQ) (r=0.84)
  4. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.84)
  5. competent (not incompetent) (r=0.84)
  6. wise (not foolish) (r=0.81)
  7. all-seeing (not blind) (r=0.79)
  8. resourceful (not helpless) (r=0.78)
  9. accurate (not off target) (r=0.78)
  10. focused (not absentminded) (r=0.73)

Notes

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