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Most yes-man or contrarian 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 "yes-man" to "contrarian". 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 "yes-man" is the same as 100/100 for "contrarian". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most yes-man characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.915Gary Walsh (Veep)
290.236Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
390.1116Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
488.58Norah (Ginny & Georgia)
587.645Ashley Barrett (The Boys)
686.919Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
786.534Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
886.56Billy Keikeya (Battlestar Galactica)
986.430SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1086.314Sam Evans (Glee)
1186.127Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1286.136George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1385.828Denny (The Room)
1484.918Greg Hirsch (Succession)
1584.724Tom Wambsgans (Succession)
1684.2117Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1784.28Ubbe Ragnarsson (Vikings)
1884.015Finn Hudson (Glee)
1983.735Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)
2083.710Jimmy Hurdstrom (Yellowstone)
2183.758Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
2283.517Pop Tate (Riverdale)
2383.274Phil Dunphy (Modern Family)
2483.037Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
2582.642Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)

Most contrarian characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.411Natalie (Yellowjackets)
295.424Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
394.538Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
492.614Logan Roy (Succession)
592.511Chiana (Farscape)
690.520Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
790.250April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
890.028Britta Perry (Community)
989.822Alan Shore (Boston Legal)
1089.513Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
1189.541Billy Butcher (The Boys)
1289.423Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With the Wind)
1389.416Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1489.118Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
1589.110Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)
1689.110Tony Johnson (After Life)
1789.010Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
1888.924Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1988.745Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
2088.611Jimmy McNulty (The Wire)
2188.634Man in Black (Westworld)
2288.422Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
2388.281Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly + Serenity)
2488.239Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
2588.174Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)

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 yes-man<--->contrarian when aggregated at the character level.

  1. submissive (not dominant) (r=0.71)
  2. unchallenging (not demanding) (r=0.7)
  3. gullible (not cynical) (r=0.7)
  4. meek (not bossy) (r=0.69)
  5. passive (not assertive) (r=0.69)
  6. accommodating (not stubborn) (r=0.68)
  7. neutral (not opinionated) (r=0.67)
  8. soft (not hard) (r=0.66)
  9. resigned (not resistant) (r=0.66)
  10. soft (not hard) (r=0.65)

Notes

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