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

Most interrupting characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.996Eric Cartman (South Park)
295.187Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
395.034Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
494.539Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
594.0194Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
693.813Jonah Ryan (Veep)
793.746Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
893.632George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
993.672Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1093.429Ben Chang (Community)
1193.265Michael Scott (The Office)
1293.229Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1392.747Prince John (Robin Hood)
1492.354Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
1592.348Sterling Archer (Archer)
1692.211Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1791.926Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
1891.818Hannah Horvath (Girls)
1991.124Maxine Baker (Ginny & Georgia)
2090.947Denny Crane (Boston Legal)
2190.9120Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
2290.85Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
2390.538Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2490.3103Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
2590.233Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)

Most attentive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.114Lester Freamon (The Wire)
290.931Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
390.323Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
490.3127Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
589.922Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
689.919Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
789.778Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
889.712Aram Mojtabai (The Blacklist)
988.728Charlie Young (The West Wing)
1088.76Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
1188.1110Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
1287.797Carlisle Cullen (Twilight)
1387.56Buck Vu (The OA)
1487.323Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary)
1587.1123Linda Martin (Lucifer)
1686.960Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1786.893Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1886.419John 'Preacher' Middleton (Virgin River)
1986.285Black Panther (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
2086.210Kes (Star Trek: Voyager)
2186.217Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
2286.290Esme Cullen (Twilight)
2386.119Aimee Finecky (The Spectacular Now)
2485.919Joe (Ginny & Georgia)
2585.848El Profesor (Money Heist)

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 interrupting<--->attentive when aggregated at the character level.

  1. impatient (not patient) (r=0.83)
  2. ludicrous (not sensible) (r=0.81)
  3. rude (not respectful) (r=0.8)
  4. exaggerating (not factual) (r=0.77)
  5. deranged (not reasonable) (r=0.77)
  6. 🤣 (not 😊) (r=0.76)
  7. bad-manners (not good-manners) (r=0.75)
  8. inappropriate (not seemly) (r=0.75)
  9. gluttonous (not moderate) (r=0.75)
  10. moody (not stable) (r=0.74)

Notes

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