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

Most dunce characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
191.2524Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
290.910Matt Press (Ginny & Georgia)
390.835Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
490.425Jonah Ryan (Veep)
590.226Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
689.1734Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
788.0128Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
887.991Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
987.7276Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
1087.642Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1187.2174Denny (The Room)
1287.119Johnny 'Drama' Chase (Entourage)
1386.9527Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
1486.648The Deep (The Boys)
1586.6497Bob Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
1686.4275Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
1786.336Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1886.3647Kevin Malone (The Office)
1986.331Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
2085.920Connor Roy (Succession)
2185.5297Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
2285.1471Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
2384.911Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
2484.991Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
2584.818Gino (Baby Reindeer)

Most genius characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.022L (Death Note)
297.8125Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
395.872Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
495.814Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate)
595.759Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
695.624Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
795.155Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
895.0231Beth Harmon (The Queen's Gambit)
995.047Will Hunting (Good Will Hunting)
1095.0525Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
1194.933Saanvi Bahl (Manifest)
1294.9625Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
1394.7371Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
1494.61089Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
1594.436El Profesor (Money Heist)
1694.337Klaus Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1794.297Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1894.132Taylor McKessie (High School Musical)
1994.0374River Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
2093.834Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
2193.848Professor X (X-Men)
2293.748Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
2393.642Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)
2493.6258Robert Ford (Westworld)
2593.530Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)

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 dunce<--->genius when aggregated at the character level.

  1. low IQ (not high IQ) (r=0.94)
  2. ignorant (not knowledgeable) (r=0.89)
  3. unobservant (not perceptive) (r=0.86)
  4. incompetent (not competent) (r=0.86)
  5. foolish (not wise) (r=0.83)
  6. off target (not accurate) (r=0.78)
  7. oblivious (not alert) (r=0.78)
  8. helpless (not resourceful) (r=0.77)
  9. generic (not insightful) (r=0.76)
  10. blind (not all-seeing) (r=0.76)

Notes

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