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Most tautology or oxymoron characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "tautology" to "oxymoron". 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 "tautology" is the same as 100/100 for "oxymoron". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most tautology characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
184.65Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
283.814Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
376.89Patty Hewes (Damages)
476.417Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
575.812Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey)
675.09Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
774.710Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
874.49William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
973.637Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
1073.614Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1173.312Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
1272.910Cora Munro (The Last of the Mohicans)
1372.417Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1472.49Bunk Moreland (The Wire)
1572.014Melinda Warner (Law & Order: SVU)
1671.414Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1771.311Abby Whelan (Scandal)
1871.313India Wilkes (Gone With the Wind)
1971.019the Alien (Alien)
2071.012Carla Espinosa (Scrubs)
2170.98Logan Roy (Succession)
2270.817Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG-1)
2370.411Abigail Baker (Blue Bloods)
2470.215Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2570.010Veronica Donovan (Prison Break)

Most oxymoron characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
186.97John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)
284.56Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
382.326Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
481.19Ragnar Lothbrok (Vikings)
580.820Officer Slater (Superbad)
680.68Anthony DiNozzo (NCIS)
779.3109Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
878.711Dan Egan (Veep)
978.426Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
1078.023George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)
1177.99Sutter Keely (The Spectacular Now)
1277.911Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1377.414Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman)
1477.423Britta Perry (Community)
1576.85Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1676.113Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
1775.721Buddy Pine (The Incredibles)
1875.520Theon Greyjoy (Game of Thrones)
1975.426Mac (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2075.235Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
2175.121Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
2275.011Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
2374.928Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
2474.736Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
2574.641The Deep (The Boys)

Similar traits

The survey has 400 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with tautology<--->oxymoron when aggregated at the character level.

  1. sensible (not ludicrous) (r=0.58)
  2. stable (not unstable) (r=0.57)
  3. consistent (not variable) (r=0.56)
  4. reasonable (not deranged) (r=0.56)
  5. sane (not crazy) (r=0.56)
  6. seemly (not inappropriate) (r=0.56)
  7. orderly (not chaotic) (r=0.54)
  8. reliable (not experimental) (r=0.54)
  9. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.54)
  10. stable (not moody) (r=0.54)

Notes

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