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

Most cultured characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.116Diane Lockhart (The Good Wife)
295.092Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
394.523Lady Jessica (Dune)
494.423Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
592.819Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
692.719Olivia Pope (Scandal)
792.519Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
892.214Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time)
991.625Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
1091.217Hernando Fuentes (Sense8)
1189.679Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
1289.512Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1389.113Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1488.7110Miranda Priestly (The Devil Wears Prada)
1588.623Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)
1688.620Saanvi Bahl (Manifest)
1788.537Jessica Pearson (Suits)
1888.515Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife)
1988.441Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
2088.440Joan Watson (Elementary)
2188.457The Operative (Firefly + Serenity)
2288.415Dr. Jennifer Melfi (The Sopranos)
2388.146Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
2488.013Sun Bak (Sense8)
2587.936Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)

Most rustic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.770Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
293.825Darlene Snell (Ozark)
389.19Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
489.19Jimmy McNulty (The Wire)
588.36Kevin Rayburn (Bloodline)
688.216Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
787.625Ruth Langmore (Ozark)
887.426Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
987.323Quint (Jaws)
1087.322Wyatt Langmore (Ozark)
1187.213Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
1287.229Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
1387.014Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
1486.631Tommy (Shameless)
1586.67Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
1686.444Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1786.425Daisy Mason (Downton Abbey)
1886.332Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1986.034Tuco (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
2086.041Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
2185.58David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
2285.457Billy Butcher (The Boys)
2385.315Jimmy Hurdstrom (Yellowstone)
2485.312Perrin Aybara (Wheel of Time)
2585.381Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)

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 cultured<--->rustic when aggregated at the character level.

  1. eloquent (not unpolished) (r=0.81)
  2. refined (not rugged) (r=0.77)
  3. highbrow (not lowbrow) (r=0.77)
  4. big-vocabulary (not small-vocabulary) (r=0.72)
  5. 👨‍⚕️ (not 👨‍🔧) (r=0.71)
  6. manicured (not scruffy) (r=0.69)
  7. washed (not muddy) (r=0.68)
  8. valedictorian (not drop out) (r=0.66)
  9. hygienic (not gross) (r=0.65)
  10. stylish (not slovenly) (r=0.64)

Notes

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