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

Most naive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.432Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
291.897Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
391.65Kes (Star Trek: Voyager)
490.226SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
589.728Teddy Flood (Westworld)
689.791Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
789.422Lucy MacLean (Fallout)
887.616Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
987.047Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)
1086.8202Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
1186.715Lenny (After Life)
1286.5168Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
1386.237Kevin Malone (The Office)
1486.217D'Angelo Barksdale (The Wire)
1585.445Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1685.232Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1785.162Brittany Pierce (Glee)
1884.741Guinevere Beck (You)
1984.646Maria (West Side Story)
2084.552Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
2184.383Luke Dunphy (Modern Family)
2284.141Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2384.0104Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
2483.629Denny (The Room)
2583.439Amy Wong (Futurama)

Most paranoid characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.67Jimmy Baxter (Your Honor)
294.520Mozzie (White Collar)
394.123Logan Roy (Succession)
491.115Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
590.949Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
690.710Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
790.09Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
889.915Lex Luthor (Smallville)
989.818Huck (Scandal)
1089.246Billy Butcher (The Boys)
1189.134Chuck McGill (Better Call Saul)
1288.818Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
1388.742Paul Spector (The Fall)
1488.724Ivar Ragnarsson (Vikings)
1588.673Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
1688.526Kaz Brekker (Shadow and Bone)
1788.423Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
1888.229Man in Black (Westworld)
1988.241Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
2088.118Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
2187.917Rowan Pope (Scandal)
2287.810Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate)
2387.7208Marlin (Finding Nemo)
2487.614Doc Holliday (Wynonna Earp)
2587.439Cho Sang-woo (Squid Game)

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 naive<--->paranoid when aggregated at the character level.

  1. gullible (not cynical) (r=0.75)
  2. trusting (not suspicious) (r=0.7)
  3. lighthearted (not intense) (r=0.68)
  4. innocent (not jaded) (r=0.67)
  5. cheery (not grumpy) (r=0.67)
  6. sweet (not bitter) (r=0.67)
  7. sweet (not savory) (r=0.67)
  8. open (not guarded) (r=0.66)
  9. optimistic (not pessimistic) (r=0.66)
  10. innocent (not worldly) (r=0.66)

Notes

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