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

Most rational characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.623Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
293.737Temperance Brennan (Bones)
392.8128Cedric Daniels (The Wire)
492.6182Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
592.326T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
691.3304Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
791.213Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate)
891.0131William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
991.021Henry Spencer (Psych)
1090.67Maxine Roby (CSI: Vegas)
1190.6534Dana Scully (The X-Files)
1290.5326Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1390.338M (Tommorrow Never Dies)
1490.121Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
1590.0548Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
1689.9148George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
1789.9299Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
1889.822Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
1989.4135Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)
2089.429Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
2189.412Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
2289.3140Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
2389.221James Greer (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan)
2489.1395Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
2589.1373Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)

Most whimsical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.7110Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
294.129Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
393.559Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
493.224Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
593.0594Michael Scott (The Office)
692.930Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
792.91219Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
892.538Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
992.3108Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1091.369Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1191.3450Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
1291.3339Lydia Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
1391.2430Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
1490.6145Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1590.536SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1690.526Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
1790.3692Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
1890.363Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1990.165Alan (The Hangover)
2090.050Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2190.0429Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
2289.8565Kelly Kapoor (The Office)
2389.6106Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2489.533Lillian Kaushtupper (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
2589.463Jess Day (New Girl)

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 rational<--->whimsical when aggregated at the character level.

  1. realistic (not fantastical) (r=0.86)
  2. practical (not imaginative) (r=0.83)
  3. grounded (not fantasy-prone) (r=0.83)
  4. down2earth (not head@clouds) (r=0.82)
  5. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.82)
  6. factual (not exaggerating) (r=0.82)
  7. pointed (not random) (r=0.8)
  8. self-disciplined (not disorganized) (r=0.8)
  9. no-nonsense (not dramatic) (r=0.79)
  10. deliberate (not spontaneous) (r=0.78)

Notes

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