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Most old-fashioned or progressive characters

As part of the Statistical "Which Character" Personality Quiz, this website has had volunteers rate 2,000 characters on a 100 point scale from "old-fashioned" to "progressive". 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 "old-fashioned" is the same as 100/100 for "progressive". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most old-fashioned characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.99Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
297.311John Dutton (Yellowstone)
397.018Bob Kelso (Scrubs)
496.69Logan Roy (Succession)
596.510Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
696.48Serena Joy Waterford (The Handmaid's Tale)
795.610Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
895.522Petunia Dursley (Harry Potter)
995.511Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1095.411Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice)
1195.410Javert (Les Misérables)
1295.215Mr. William Collins (Pride and Prejudice)
1395.010Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
1494.919Samuel Norton (The Shawshank Redemption)
1594.510Junior Soprano (The Sopranos)
1694.421Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
1794.36Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
1894.024Mary Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
1993.914Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2093.411Angela Martin (The Office)
2193.18Red Forman (That 70's Show)
2293.010Cornelius Fudge (Harry Potter)
2393.05Lloyd (Yellowstone)
2492.911Queen Alicent Hightower (House of the Dragon)
2592.810Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)

Most progressive characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.39Eric Effiong (Sex Education)
296.520Lady Sybil Crawley (Downton Abbey)
396.18Abby Sciuto (NCIS)
495.99Chiana (Farscape)
595.712Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
695.79Titus Andromedon (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
795.412Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
894.47Pamela Poovey (Archer)
993.99Elizabeth Swann (Pirates of the Caribbean)
1093.121Jo March (Little Women)
1192.89Mulan (Mulan)
1292.511Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1392.49Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1492.210Ava (Ex Machina)
1592.026Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
1692.010Sam Obisanya (Ted Lasso)
1791.910Ekko (Arcane)
1891.720Rachel Chu (Crazy Rich Asians)
1991.56Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
2091.217Remy (Ratatouille)
2191.19Sabine Wren (Ahsoka)
2291.014Jessa Johansson (Girls)
2390.425Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
2490.315Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
2590.211Jean Milburn (Sex Education)

Similar traits

The survey has 400 different descriptive scales that the characters can be rated on. This list is the 10 other scales that that have the highest correlation with old-fashioned<--->progressive when aggregated at the character level.

  1. conservative (not liberal) (r=0.78)
  2. uncreative (not open to new experinces) (r=0.7)
  3. close-minded (not open-minded) (r=0.67)
  4. historical (not modern) (r=0.65)
  5. geriatric (not vibrant) (r=0.62)
  6. old (not young) (r=0.6)
  7. conventional (not creative) (r=0.59)
  8. sexist (not feminist) (r=0.59)
  9. resists change (not likes change) (r=0.58)
  10. stuck-in-the-past (not forward-thinking) (r=0.58)

Notes

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