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

Most spontaneous characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.825Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
295.190Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
393.181Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
492.91139Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
592.339Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
692.0118Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
791.8416Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
891.1428Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
991.152Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1091.035Shawn Spencer (Psych)
1190.4436Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
1290.323SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1390.331Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1490.235Jessa Johansson (Girls)
1590.2399Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
1690.19Keeley Jones (Ted Lasso)
1790.1114Dory (Finding Nemo)
1890.1100Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1990.078Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2090.023Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)
2189.6205Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2289.6170Olaf (Frozen)
2389.427Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
2489.3297Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2589.21151Joey Tribbiani (Friends)

Most deliberate characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.718Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
294.722Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
394.626Rose Armitage (Get Out)
494.4332Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
593.614O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
693.518Thufir Hawat (Dune)
793.5117Russell 'Stringer' Bell (The Wire)
893.4144Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
993.4236Robert Ford (Westworld)
1093.0574Angela Martin (The Office)
1192.8269The Operative (Firefly + Serenity)
1292.6403Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)
1392.6192Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1492.68Abe Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1592.333Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
1692.3414Eleanor Sung-Young (Crazy Rich Asians)
1792.2237Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones)
1892.139Javert (Les Misérables)
1992.020Scorpius (Farscape)
2092.0275Dexter Morgan (Dexter)
2191.9106Lester Freamon (The Wire)
2291.937Ser Otto Hightower (House of the Dragon)
2391.837Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2491.6117Cedric Daniels (The Wire)
2591.6271Tywin Lannister (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 spontaneous<--->deliberate when aggregated at the character level.

  1. spontaneous (not scheduled) (r=0.91)
  2. astonishing (not methodical) (r=0.87)
  3. ADHD (not OCD) (r=0.85)
  4. loose (not tight) (r=0.84)
  5. goof-off (not studious) (r=0.81)
  6. playful (not serious) (r=0.81)
  7. intimate (not formal) (r=0.8)
  8. bold (not serious) (r=0.8)
  9. tardy (not on-time) (r=0.8)
  10. impulsive (not cautious) (r=0.79)

Notes

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