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Most questioning or believing characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 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)
396.28Dwight Schrute (The Office)
494.65Capp (Chicago Fire)
594.05Judith Harper-Melnick (Two and Half Men)
694.010Leroy Jethro Gibbs (NCIS)
793.115Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
892.912Eve Polastri (Killing Eve)
992.78Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
1092.610June Osborne (The Handmaid's Tale)
1192.514Freddie Lounds (Hannibal)
1292.418Will Graham (Hannibal)
1392.323Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
1492.313Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
1592.321Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1692.212Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1792.117Jeff Winger (Community)
1892.07Lois Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
1992.012Temperance Brennan (Bones)
2092.09Malory Archer (Archer)
2191.818Mabel Mora (Only Murders in the Building)
2291.515Perry Cox (Scrubs)
2391.315Uma Heller (Only Murders in the Building)
2491.239James Doakes (Dexter)
2591.220Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)

Most believing characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.628Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
295.818Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
392.56Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
492.313Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
592.36Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
692.118Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
791.86Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
891.712Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
990.917Mamá Coco (Coco)
1090.519Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
1189.85Sally Rayburn (Bloodline)
1289.611Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
1389.45Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)
1488.531Charles Boyle (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1587.68Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1687.68Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1786.89Pumbaa (The Lion King)
1886.79Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
1986.418Misa Amane (Death Note)
2086.17O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
2185.914Mary Margaret Blanchard (Once Upon a Time)
2285.88Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls)
2385.827Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
2485.010Thor (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
2584.611Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)

Similar traits

The survey has 400 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=0.66)
  2. cynical (not gullible) (r=0.6)
  3. pessimistic (not optimistic) (r=0.58)
  4. grumpy (not cheery) (r=0.56)
  5. distant (not touchy-feely) (r=0.56)
  6. guarded (not open) (r=0.54)
  7. realist (not idealist) (r=0.54)
  8. gloomy (not sunny) (r=0.53)
  9. handshakes (not hugs) (r=0.53)
  10. contrarian (not yes-man) (r=0.52)

Notes

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