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

Most poetic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.444Christian (Moulin Rouge!)
290.943Oliver Putnam (Only Murders in the Building)
389.957William H. 'Shakespeare' Hill (This Is Us)
488.665Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter)
588.219Jaskier (The Witcher)
687.419Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
787.324Marianne Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
886.935Maria (West Side Story)
986.9160Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
1086.427Ophelia (Hamlet)
1186.226Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones)
1286.0156Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
1386.031Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black)
1486.057Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
1585.634Princess Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina)
1685.530Tony (West Side Story)
1785.5115Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1884.833Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1984.657Romeo Montague (Romeo and Juliet)
2084.555Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
2184.2158Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2284.2114Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2383.623Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2483.327Misa Amane (Death Note)
2583.229Debora (Baby Driver)

Most factual characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.144Temperance Brennan (Bones)
293.757Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
392.438T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
490.730Dina Fox (Superstore)
590.212Taissa (Yellowjackets)
689.8171Janet (The Good Place)
789.515Amos Burton (The Expanse)
889.417Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
989.313Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1088.873Dwight Schrute (The Office)
1188.668Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
1288.629Marty Byrde (Ozark)
1388.487Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1488.414Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
1588.465Red Forman (That 70's Show)
1688.417Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1788.344Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network)
1888.020Henry Rearden (Atlas Shrugged)
1987.8287Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
2087.782Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)
2187.77Danny Reagan (Blue Bloods)
2287.633Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
2387.341Amy Brookheimer (Veep)
2487.314John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)
2587.235Walter Skinner (The X-Files)

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 poetic<--->factual when aggregated at the character level.

  1. artistic (not scientific) (r=0.75)
  2. imaginative (not practical) (r=0.75)
  3. metaphorical (not literal) (r=0.72)
  4. abstract (not concrete) (r=0.71)
  5. fantastical (not realistic) (r=0.7)
  6. whimsical (not rational) (r=0.68)
  7. story-driven (not data-driven) (r=0.68)
  8. idealist (not realist) (r=0.68)
  9. literary (not mathematical) (r=0.66)
  10. spiritual (not skeptical) (r=0.65)

Notes

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