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

Most maverick characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.816Cosmo Kramer (Seinfeld)
295.916Jessa Johansson (Girls)
395.77Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
495.513Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)
595.212Octavia Blake (The 100)
695.115Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
795.112Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
895.07Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
994.912Maeve Millay (Westworld)
1094.720Dr. Gregory House (House, M.D.)
1194.411Captain Killian 'Hook' Jones (Once Upon a Time)
1294.312Ekko (Arcane)
1394.113Wolverine (X-Men)
1494.114Rhett Butler (Gone With the Wind)
1594.010Ramona Vega (Hustlers)
1694.011Natalie (Yellowjackets)
1793.918Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
1893.815Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
1993.711Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
2093.79Villanelle (Killing Eve)
2193.320Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
2293.315Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
2393.312Perry Cox (Scrubs)
2493.210Jimmy McNulty (The Wire)
2593.111Maeve Wiley (Sex Education)

Most conformist characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.29Javert (Les Misérables)
293.85Matt Braden (After Life)
393.312Michael Groff (Sex Education)
493.09Alan Harper (Two and Half Men)
592.48Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
692.313Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
791.89Lieutenant Schrank (West Side Story)
891.410Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
990.415Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
1088.49Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1187.99Ervin Burrell (The Wire)
1287.89Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1387.517Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1487.417Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
1587.010Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
1686.821Chet (Fallout)
1786.111George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
1886.117Frank Burns (M*A*S*H)
1985.913Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
2085.618Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
2185.56Queen Gertrude (Hamlet)
2285.520Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons)
2385.116Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
2484.619Ryan Cooper (Promising Young Woman)
2584.023C-3PO (Star Wars)

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 maverick<--->conformist when aggregated at the character level.

  1. rebellious (not obedient) (r=0.79)
  2. boundary breaking (not stereotypical) (r=0.74)
  3. unorthodox (not traditional) (r=0.73)
  4. wild (not tame) (r=0.73)
  5. innovative (not routine) (r=0.72)
  6. adventurous (not stick-in-the-mud) (r=0.72)
  7. f***-the-police (not tattle-tale) (r=0.72)
  8. deviant (not average) (r=0.71)
  9. radical (not centrist) (r=0.71)
  10. anarchist (not statist) (r=0.7)

Notes

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