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

Most questioning characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.823Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
296.314Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
394.65Capp (Chicago Fire)
494.010Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
593.110Dwight Schrute (The Office)
693.017Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
793.027Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
892.78Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
992.613Temperance Brennan (Bones)
1092.515Freddie Lounds (Hannibal)
1192.418Jeff Winger (Community)
1292.418Will Graham (Hannibal)
1392.414Eve Polastri (Killing Eve)
1492.313Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
1592.115Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
1692.09Malory Archer (Archer)
1791.58Nick Fury (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1891.515Perry Cox (Scrubs)
1991.324Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
2091.142James Doakes (Dexter)
2191.111Mystique (X-Men)
2291.114Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife)
2390.921Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)
2490.610Kate Beckett (Castle)
2590.211Rita Skeeter (Harry Potter)

Most believing characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.729Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
293.121Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
392.914Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
492.56Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
591.712Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
691.37Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
791.020Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
890.910Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
990.822Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
1089.614Pumbaa (The Lion King)
1189.26Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)
1288.723Mamá Coco (Coco)
1387.68Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1487.415Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1587.220Misa Amane (Death Note)
1687.09Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1786.613Penny (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1886.17O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
1986.010Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
2086.010Kelly Erin Hannon (The Office)
2185.315Mary Margaret Blanchard (Once Upon a Time)
2285.010Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
2384.638Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2484.47Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
2584.38Bob Pinciotti (That 70's Show)

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 questioning<--->believing when aggregated at the character level.

  1. skeptical (not spiritual) (r=0.68)
  2. cynical (not gullible) (r=0.62)
  3. pessimistic (not optimistic) (r=0.59)
  4. grumpy (not cheery) (r=0.57)
  5. distant (not touchy-feely) (r=0.57)
  6. guarded (not open) (r=0.55)
  7. realist (not idealist) (r=0.55)
  8. handshakes (not hugs) (r=0.54)
  9. contrarian (not yes-man) (r=0.54)
  10. gloomy (not sunny) (r=0.54)

Notes

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