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

Most gullible characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.744Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
294.142Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
393.840Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
493.737Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
593.3135Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
692.448Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
792.139Fez (That 70's Show)
891.423Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
991.381Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1090.924SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1190.715Darryl Whitefeather (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1290.374Brittany Pierce (Glee)
1389.437Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1489.444Kevin Malone (The Office)
1589.037Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1688.9112Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1788.436Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)
1888.173Emmet Brickowski (The Lego Movie)
1988.184Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
2087.711Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
2187.655Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
2287.5112Rex (Toy Story)
2387.435Cyndee Pokorny (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2487.240Andy Bernard (The Office)
2587.0206Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid)

Most cynical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.224Perry Cox (Scrubs)
295.737Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
395.219Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
494.715Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey)
594.429Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
694.246Red Forman (That 70's Show)
793.643Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
893.527Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
993.218Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1092.917Ari Gold (Entourage)
1192.822Cooper Howard (Fallout)
1292.710Amos Burton (The Expanse)
1392.756Billy Butcher (The Boys)
1492.625Logan Roy (Succession)
1592.621Tycho Brahe (Penny Arcade)
1692.511Scorpius (Farscape)
1792.575Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1892.540Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
1992.424Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
2092.26Maurice Levy (The Wire)
2192.115Rose Armitage (Get Out)
2291.918Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
2391.913Malory Archer (Archer)
2491.920Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2591.858Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

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 gullible<--->cynical when aggregated at the character level.

  1. vulnerable (not armoured) (r=0.81)
  2. soft (not hard) (r=0.81)
  3. soft (not hard) (r=0.81)
  4. innocent (not worldly) (r=0.8)
  5. innocent (not jaded) (r=0.77)
  6. naive (not paranoid) (r=0.75)
  7. submissive (not dominant) (r=0.74)
  8. 🐿 (not 🦇) (r=0.73)
  9. sweet (not savory) (r=0.73)
  10. often crying (not never cries) (r=0.73)

Notes

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