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

Most frank characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.447Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
297.314Tony Johnson (After Life)
397.244Red Forman (That 70's Show)
497.216Beth Dutton (Yellowstone)
596.617Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
696.611Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
796.445April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
896.310Saul Tigh (Battlestar Galactica)
995.735Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
1095.636Dina Fox (Superstore)
1195.315Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1295.193Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
1394.929Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
1494.914Rust Cohle (True Detective)
1594.813Sgt. Sean Dignam (The Departed)
1694.724Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
1794.762Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1894.320Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1994.146Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
2094.028Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
2194.083Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2294.022Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
2393.724Cooper Howard (Fallout)
2493.551Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
2593.454Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)

Most sugarcoated characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
188.429Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
284.314Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
383.120Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
482.825Emily Cooper (Emily in Paris)
580.650Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
680.517Gary Walsh (Veep)
780.039Charlie Morningstar (Hazbin Hotel)
879.914Lyla Garrity (Friday Night Lights)
978.855George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1078.515Tom Wambsgans (Succession)
1178.48Tommy Carcetti (The Wire)
1278.042Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1377.424Darryl Whitefeather (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1477.229John Michael Dorian (Scrubs)
1576.763Ted Mullens (Schitt's Creek)
1676.778Jess Day (New Girl)
1776.437Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1876.0150Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
1975.7165Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
2075.6113Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2175.682Bianca Stratford (10 Things I Hate About You)
2275.262Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
2374.824Maid Marian (Robin Hood)
2474.816Missy Armitage (Get Out)
2574.882Ernesto de la Cruz (Coco)

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 frank<--->sugarcoated when aggregated at the character level.

  1. direct (not roundabout) (r=0.73)
  2. armoured (not vulnerable) (r=0.68)
  3. cynical (not gullible) (r=0.68)
  4. hard (not soft) (r=0.68)
  5. hard (not soft) (r=0.68)
  6. thick-skinned (not sensitive) (r=0.64)
  7. coarse (not delicate) (r=0.64)
  8. never cries (not often crying) (r=0.64)
  9. strong identity (not social chameleon) (r=0.63)
  10. fighter (not lover) (r=0.63)

Notes

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