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

Most hugs characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.323Olaf (Frozen)
297.746Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
397.318Penelope Garcia (Criminal Minds)
497.045Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
596.76Cally Henderson (Battlestar Galactica)
696.616Angela Montenegro (Bones)
796.417SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
896.418Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
996.117Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
1095.715June George (Mean Girls)
1195.613Michael Scott (The Office)
1295.430Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1394.910Chien-Po (Mulan)
1494.711Kitty Forman (That 70's Show)
1594.613Molly Weasley (Harry Potter)
1694.426Jess Day (New Girl)
1794.414Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)
1893.813Manny Santos (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1993.821Mindy Chen (Emily in Paris)
2093.720Jaskier (The Witcher)
2193.610Aimee Gibbs (Sex Education)
2293.619Misa Amane (Death Note)
2393.633Dory (Finding Nemo)
2493.532Donkey (Shrek)
2593.510Maxine Baker (Ginny & Georgia)

Most handshakes characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.714Red Forman (That 70's Show)
299.416Angela Martin (The Office)
399.010Javert (Les Misérables)
499.09Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
598.112Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
697.821Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
797.613William Rawls (The Wire)
897.68Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)
997.68John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)
1097.116Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
1197.014Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1296.77Hideki Ide (Death Note)
1396.58Major Arnold Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1496.48Dr. Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1596.37Jimmy Baxter (Your Honor)
1696.312Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
1796.312Abe Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1896.312Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1996.25Ari Gold (Entourage)
2096.212Cedric Daniels (The Wire)
2196.210Michel Gerard (Gilmore Girls)
2296.19Colonel Graff (Ender's Game)
2396.110Alexander Conklin (The Bourne Identity)
2496.013Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
2596.06Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate)

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 hugs<--->handshakes when aggregated at the character level.

  1. touchy-feely (not distant) (r=0.82)
  2. cheery (not grumpy) (r=0.77)
  3. bubbly (not flat) (r=0.77)
  4. warm (not cold) (r=0.75)
  5. giggling (not chortling) (r=0.74)
  6. open (not guarded) (r=0.74)
  7. heartfelt (not clinical) (r=0.74)
  8. emotional (not unemotional) (r=0.73)
  9. sunny (not gloomy) (r=0.73)
  10. sweet (not savory) (r=0.71)

Notes

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