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

Most factual characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.230Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
297.889Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
394.875Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
494.4115Janet (The Good Place)
593.853Temperance Brennan (Bones)
693.516Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
793.435Dana Scully (The X-Files)
893.143Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
992.514Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
1092.318Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1192.114John Dutton (Yellowstone)
1291.8100Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1391.4117Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1490.571Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1)
1590.451Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1690.131William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
1789.921M (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1889.824Lester Freamon (The Wire)
1989.771George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
2089.56Abigail Baker (Blue Bloods)
2189.410Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
2288.916Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
2388.76Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
2488.135Olivia Benson (Law & Order: SVU)
2588.036Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Most exaggerating characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.116Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
295.998Eric Cartman (South Park)
395.779Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
495.686Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
595.293Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
695.038Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
794.7133Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
894.444Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
994.215Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1093.933Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1193.919Jaskier (The Witcher)
1293.427Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1393.416F. Tony Scarapiducci (Space Force)
1493.462Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
1593.341Ben Chang (Community)
1693.259Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1793.041Cameron Tucker (Modern Family)
1892.932Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
1992.9114Rogelio De La Vega (Jane the Virgin)
2092.734George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
2192.772Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2292.637Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
2392.3238Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)
2492.344Craig Pelton (Community)
2592.1209Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)

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

  1. no-nonsense (not dramatic) (r=0.83)
  2. sensible (not ludicrous) (r=0.82)
  3. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.82)
  4. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.81)
  5. confidential (not gossiping) (r=0.78)
  6. attentive (not interrupting) (r=0.77)
  7. down2earth (not head@clouds) (r=0.77)
  8. wise (not foolish) (r=0.77)
  9. reasonable (not deranged) (r=0.76)
  10. works hard (not plays hard) (r=0.75)

Notes

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