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

Most insightful characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.519Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
295.811Omar Little (The Wire)
395.712Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
495.514Will Graham (Hannibal)
595.111Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
695.021Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
794.817Lester Freamon (The Wire)
894.718Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
994.421Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)
1094.37Claire Colburn (Elizabethtown)
1193.917Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting)
1293.712Amanita Caplan (Sense8)
1393.410Moiraine Damodred (Wheel of Time)
1493.419Rust Cohle (True Detective)
1593.19Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
1693.013Peggy Olson (Mad Men)
1792.613'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1892.210Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1992.07Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2091.921Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
2191.97Prairie Johnson (The OA)
2291.815Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
2391.827Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
2491.79Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
2591.521Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Most generic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.830Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
290.06Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
389.18Billy Keikeya (Battlestar Galactica)
488.414Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
587.97Noah Puckerman (Glee)
687.77Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
787.014Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
885.513Lisa (The Room)
985.310Michael Groff (Sex Education)
1085.113Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)
1185.17Curt Vaughan (The Cabin in the Woods)
1284.615Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
1384.421Bella Swan (Twilight)
1483.010Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
1582.718Jonah Ryan (Veep)
1682.67Jules Louden (The Cabin in the Woods)
1782.613Janice Soprano (The Sopranos)
1882.56Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1982.417Brad Bellick (Prison Break)
2082.326Chet (Fallout)
2182.19Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
2281.911Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
2381.426Mike McLintock (Veep)
2480.98Harvey Kinkle (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
2580.715Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)

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 insightful<--->generic when aggregated at the character level.

  1. genius (not dunce) (r=0.76)
  2. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.73)
  3. perceptive (not unobservant) (r=0.73)
  4. interesting (not tiresome) (r=0.72)
  5. all-seeing (not blind) (r=0.71)
  6. deep (not shallow) (r=0.71)
  7. meaningful (not pointless) (r=0.71)
  8. high IQ (not low IQ) (r=0.7)
  9. inspiring (not cringeworthy) (r=0.69)
  10. wise (not foolish) (r=0.68)

Notes

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