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Most grounded or fantasy-prone 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 "grounded" to "fantasy-prone". 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 "grounded" is the same as 100/100 for "fantasy-prone". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most grounded characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.511Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
297.48Melinda May (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
396.418Dr. Sharon Fieldstone (Ted Lasso)
496.4145Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
595.712Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
694.910Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
794.811Cedric Daniels (The Wire)
894.620Aaron Hotchner (Criminal Minds)
994.416George S. Hammond (Stargate SG-1)
1094.36Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1194.08Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
1293.643Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
1393.311Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1492.813Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1592.713Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)
1692.610Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)
1792.522Mammy (Gone With the Wind)
1892.326Mike Ehrmantraut (Better Call Saul)
1992.317Kimball Cho (The Mentalist)
2092.29Amos Burton (The Expanse)
2192.112Roy Kent (Ted Lasso)
2291.713Blondie (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
2391.56Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
2491.418Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
2591.49Colonel Graff (Ender's Game)

Most fantasy-prone characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.510Michael Scott (The Office)
297.48Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
397.08Stormfront (The Boys)
496.98Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
596.819Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black)
696.520Ethan Ryan MacManus (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
796.419Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
896.141Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
995.68Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
1095.312Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1195.117Lily Iglehart (Sex Education)
1295.021Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1394.931Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1494.513Floki (Vikings)
1594.511Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
1694.315Misty (Yellowjackets)
1794.117Abed Nadir (Community)
1894.07Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1994.014Brittany Pierce (Glee)
2093.930Dory (Finding Nemo)
2193.813John Michael Dorian (Scrubs)
2293.621Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
2393.522SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
2493.428Princess Ariel (The Little Mermaid)
2593.414George Oscar 'Gob' Bluth (Arrested Development)

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 grounded<--->fantasy-prone when aggregated at the character level.

  1. realistic (not fantastical) (r=0.87)
  2. down2earth (not head@clouds) (r=0.85)
  3. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.83)
  4. practical (not imaginative) (r=0.81)
  5. no-nonsense (not dramatic) (r=0.8)
  6. realist (not idealist) (r=0.75)
  7. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.74)
  8. parental (not childlike) (r=0.73)
  9. concrete (not abstract) (r=0.72)
  10. factual (not exaggerating) (r=0.71)

Notes

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