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

Most experimental characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.135Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
293.824Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
393.2133Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
493.053The Joker (The Dark Knight)
592.515Roman Roy (Succession)
692.418Buddy Pine (The Incredibles)
792.218Nathan Bateman (Ex Machina)
891.287Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
991.240Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)
1091.153Eric Cartman (South Park)
1190.739Ben Chang (Community)
1290.636George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
1390.6107Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1490.149Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Prison Break)
1589.724Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1689.6267Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
1789.530Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1889.519Alison DiLaurentis (Pretty Little Liars)
1989.384Jessa Johansson (Girls)
2089.041Logan Delos (Westworld)
2188.856Hannah Horvath (Girls)
2288.832Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
2388.615Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
2488.625Dean Armitage (Get Out)
2588.550Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)

Most reliable characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.022Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
293.77Lisa Johnson (After Life)
393.410Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
492.731Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind)
592.727Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
692.757Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
792.712Watari (Death Note)
892.223Rod Williams (Get Out)
992.020Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
1092.026Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1191.633Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
1290.663Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding (The Shawshank Redemption)
1390.695Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1490.631Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
1590.428Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
1690.213Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1790.0151Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1890.012Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1989.943Dorota Kishlovsky (Gossip Girl)
2089.621Charlie Young (The West Wing)
2189.458Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
2289.387Zoe Washburne (Firefly + Serenity)
2389.321Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2489.022Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary)
2588.840Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey)

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 experimental<--->reliable when aggregated at the character level.

  1. ludicrous (not sensible) (r=0.81)
  2. variable (not consistent) (r=0.79)
  3. mischievous (not well behaved) (r=0.79)
  4. deranged (not reasonable) (r=0.79)
  5. scandalous (not proper) (r=0.78)
  6. unstable (not stable) (r=0.77)
  7. crazy (not sane) (r=0.76)
  8. boundary-crossing (not boundary-respecting) (r=0.75)
  9. inappropriate (not seemly) (r=0.75)
  10. chaotic (not orderly) (r=0.75)

Notes

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