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Most cringing away or welcoming experience 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 "cringing away" to "welcoming experience". 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 "cringing away" is the same as 100/100 for "welcoming experience". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most cringing away characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.517Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
294.816Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
394.710Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
492.99April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
592.69the Alien (Alien)
692.010Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
791.910Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
891.511Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
991.516Byron Hadley (The Shawshank Redemption)
1091.211Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1190.738Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1290.68Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
1390.49Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice)
1490.118Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
1589.85Alexander Conklin (The Bourne Identity)
1688.412Red Forman (That 70's Show)
1788.427Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
1888.316Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1988.132Darlene Snell (Ozark)
2087.45Judith Harper-Melnick (Two and Half Men)
2187.37Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
2286.914Scar (The Lion King)
2386.99Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
2486.623Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
2586.619Jonah Ryan (Veep)

Most welcoming experience characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.08Molly Weasley (Harry Potter)
296.45Audrey Horne (Twin Peaks)
395.619Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
494.07Lisa Johnson (After Life)
593.820Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
693.711Chiana (Farscape)
793.320Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
892.916Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
992.915Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
1092.713Deanna Troi (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1192.227Dory (Finding Nemo)
1292.118Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1392.018Dr. Sean Maguire (Good Will Hunting)
1491.511Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
1591.49Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls)
1691.17Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
1790.911Henry Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1890.714Mary Margaret Blanchard (Once Upon a Time)
1990.617Jadzia Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2090.610Dolores Abernathy (Westworld)
2190.213Littlefoot (The Land Before Time)
2290.135Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
2389.917Westley (The Princess Bride)
2489.820Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes)
2589.724Janet (The Good Place)

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 cringing away<--->welcoming experience when aggregated at the character level.

  1. negative (not positive) (r=0.74)
  2. disturbing (not enchanting) (r=0.74)
  3. 🙅‍♂️ (not 🙋‍♂️) (r=0.74)
  4. fearful (not hopeful) (r=0.73)
  5. 🙃 (not 🥰) (r=0.72)
  6. fearmongering (not reassuring) (r=0.71)
  7. close-minded (not open-minded) (r=0.71)
  8. stingy (not generous) (r=0.7)
  9. creepy (not disarming) (r=0.7)
  10. punchable (not loveable) (r=0.7)

Notes

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