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

Most innovative characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.118Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
294.018Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
394.06Francisco d'Anconia (Atlas Shrugged)
493.77Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
593.612Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
693.428Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
793.322Floki (Vikings)
893.014Alan Shore (Boston Legal)
993.06Kurisu Makise (Steins;Gate)
1092.529Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
1192.342The Joker (The Dark Knight)
1292.315Sokka (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1392.313Tony Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1492.232Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1592.120George Weasley (Harry Potter)
1692.013Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
1791.915Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1891.914Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1991.939Doc Brown (Back to the Future)
2091.68Richard Castle (Castle)
2191.513Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)
2291.516Robin Hood (Robin Hood)
2391.525Patrick Jane (The Mentalist)
2491.47Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
2590.919Jessa Johansson (Girls)

Most routine characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.914Michael Groff (Sex Education)
296.121Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
395.99Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
495.217Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
594.914Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
694.114Stanley Hudson (The Office)
793.67Ervin Burrell (The Wire)
893.411Angela Martin (The Office)
993.38Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
1093.19Betty Draper (Mad Men)
1192.918Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1291.917Brad Bellick (Prison Break)
1391.99Javert (Les Misérables)
1491.49Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
1591.414Charlotte York (Sex and the City)
1691.06Frank Vernon (Succession)
1790.531Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
1890.513Calvin's dad (Calvin and Hobbes)
1990.414Louis Litt (Suits)
2090.320Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
2190.311Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
2290.012Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
2390.023Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
2489.98Cyril Figgis (Archer)
2589.813Carlton Lassiter (Psych)

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 innovative<--->routine when aggregated at the character level.

  1. creative (not conventional) (r=0.8)
  2. adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud) (r=0.77)
  3. unorthodox (not traditional) (r=0.74)
  4. open to new experinces (not uncreative) (r=0.74)
  5. maverick (not conformist) (r=0.72)
  6. varied (not repetitive) (r=0.71)
  7. boundary breaking (not stereotypical) (r=0.7)
  8. rebellious (not obedient) (r=0.69)
  9. avant-garde (not classical) (r=0.69)
  10. extraordinary (not mundane) (r=0.67)

Notes

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