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

Most mechanical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.528C-3PO (Star Wars)
294.411Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
394.015The Tin Man (The Wizard of Oz)
493.921Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
592.724T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
692.013Temperance Brennan (Bones)
791.820Huyang (Ahsoka)
891.65Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
991.314Rose Armitage (Get Out)
1091.015Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
1190.312Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
1290.09Benjamin Linus (LOST)
1389.920Agent Smith (The Matrix)
1489.912Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1589.811Alexander Conklin (The Bourne Identity)
1689.618Megatron (Transformers)
1789.411Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1888.912Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1988.810Javert (Les Misérables)
2088.617The Operative (Firefly + Serenity)
2188.511Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
2288.436Mark Zuckerberg (The Social Network)
2388.217Coriolanus Snow (The Hunger Games)
2488.030Lord Business (The Lego Movie)
2587.99Bernard Lowe (Westworld)

Most natural characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.714The Amphibian Man (The Shape of Water)
293.47Lisa Johnson (After Life)
392.512Maid Marian (Robin Hood)
492.315Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
591.915Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter)
691.824Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
790.811Hilda Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
890.713Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
990.113Randle Patrick McMurphy (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1089.915Pumbaa (The Lion King)
1189.517Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones)
1289.310Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
1389.213Pam Beesly (The Office)
1489.231Donkey (Shrek)
1589.19Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
1688.98Stan Rizzo (Mad Men)
1788.818Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1888.77Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
1988.616Monica Dutton (Yellowstone)
2088.39Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
2188.311Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
2288.07Claire Colburn (Elizabethtown)
2387.89Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
2487.77Lucie Manette (A Tale of Two Cities)
2587.723Ygritte (Game of Thrones)

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 mechanical<--->natural when aggregated at the character level.

  1. clinical (not heartfelt) (r=0.69)
  2. analytical (not intuitive) (r=0.68)
  3. 🤖 (not 👻) (r=0.64)
  4. rigid (not flexible) (r=0.64)
  5. formal (not intimate) (r=0.63)
  6. scientific (not artistic) (r=0.63)
  7. data-driven (not story-driven) (r=0.62)
  8. methodical (not astonishing) (r=0.62)
  9. handshakes (not hugs) (r=0.61)
  10. dry (not moist) (r=0.61)

Notes

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