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

Most common sense characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
186.429Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey)
283.941Stanley Hudson (The Office)
382.218Anna Bates (Downton Abbey)
481.919Mammy (Gone With the Wind)
581.530Melissa Schemmenti (Abbott Elementary)
681.313Vander (Arcane)
781.229Tina (The Bear)
880.810Lloyd (Yellowstone)
980.611Chuny Marquez (ER)
1079.515Ka D'Argo (Farscape)
1179.246Berta (Two and Half Men)
1278.818Lincoln Burrows (Prison Break)
1378.815Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
1478.330Garrett McNeill (Superstore)
1578.28Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1677.726Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1777.514Charlie Pace (LOST)
1877.260Seeley Booth (Bones)
1977.149Penny (The Big Bang Theory)
2077.117Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind)
2177.121Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri (The Sopranos)
2276.915Darrell C. Powers (Band of Brothers)
2376.859Stevie Budd (Schitt's Creek)
2476.811Manny (The Bear)
2576.717Fernando Sucre (Prison Break)

Most analysis characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.632Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
295.39Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
394.181Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
494.137Abed Nadir (Community)
593.759Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
693.636T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
792.923L (Death Note)
892.725Light Yagami (Death Note)
992.617Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1092.512Hunter Aloysius Percy (The OA)
1191.350Joe Goldberg (You)
1291.322Huyang (Ahsoka)
1391.225Spencer Hastings (Pretty Little Liars)
1490.832El Profesor (Money Heist)
1590.4114Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1690.142Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
1789.523Ash (Alien)
1889.358Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1989.024Lex Luthor (Smallville)
2088.619Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
2188.428Genos (One Punch Man)
2288.454Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones)
2388.227Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
2487.817Terry Benedict (Ocean's 11)
2587.224Robert Ford (Westworld)

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 common sense<--->analysis when aggregated at the character level.

  1. intuitive (not analytical) (r=0.65)
  2. lumberjack (not mad-scientist) (r=0.62)
  3. feeler (not thinker) (r=0.58)
  4. good-enough (not perfectionist) (r=0.58)
  5. physical (not intellectual) (r=0.57)
  6. natural (not mechanical) (r=0.56)
  7. small-vocabulary (not big-vocabulary) (r=0.55)
  8. story-driven (not data-driven) (r=0.55)
  9. 💪 (not 🧠) (r=0.55)
  10. heartfelt (not clinical) (r=0.54)

Notes

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