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

Most gross characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.617Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
297.319Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
395.822Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
494.831Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
594.824Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
694.112Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
793.218Merle Dixon (The Walking Dead)
893.041Shrek (Shrek)
992.79Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
1092.415Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1191.430Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
1291.321Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
1390.744Count Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
1490.513Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1590.212Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1688.924Adam Sackler (Girls)
1788.920Gene Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
1888.58Itaru Hashida (Steins;Gate)
1988.213Dr. John A. Zoidberg (Futurama)
2087.910Kevin Malone (The Office)
2187.637Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
2287.210Floki (Vikings)
2387.18David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
2487.129Eric Cartman (South Park)
2587.017Ed (Shaun of the Dead)

Most hygienic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.126The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
298.819Neal Caffrey (White Collar)
398.713Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor)
498.414Emma Pillsbury (Glee)
598.212Chris Traeger (Parks and Recreation)
698.217Beth Pearson (This Is Us)
798.09Alexis Castle (Castle)
898.010Diane Lockhart (The Good Wife)
997.517Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives)
1097.415Monica Geller (Friends)
1197.339Rarity (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
1297.38Belle French (Once Upon a Time)
1397.320Charlotte York (Sex and the City)
1497.315Angela Martin (The Office)
1597.211Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1697.07Olivia Pope (Scandal)
1797.09Black Panther (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1897.013Cordelia Chase (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
1996.99Mel Medarda (Arcane)
2096.819Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
2196.76Mellie Grant (Scandal)
2296.628Tahani Al-Jamil (The Good Place)
2396.65Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
2496.621Blaine Anderson (Glee)
2596.532Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

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 gross<--->hygienic when aggregated at the character level.

  1. muddy (not washed) (r=0.85)
  2. stinky (not fresh) (r=0.83)
  3. messy (not neat) (r=0.78)
  4. scruffy (not manicured) (r=0.77)
  5. unpolished (not eloquent) (r=0.75)
  6. rugged (not refined) (r=0.75)
  7. disreputable (not prestigious) (r=0.74)
  8. 🐒 (not 🐩) (r=0.72)
  9. drop out (not valedictorian) (r=0.72)
  10. barbaric (not civilized) (r=0.71)

Notes

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