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

Most stable characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.710Richard D. Winters (Band of Brothers)
294.212Karen Vick (Psych)
393.610Lester Freamon (The Wire)
493.214Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
592.511Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
691.813Yu Shu Lien (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)
791.76Henry Reagan (Blue Bloods)
891.622Eddard Stark (Game of Thrones)
991.511Donald Mallard (NCIS)
1091.528Elizabeth Burke (White Collar)
1191.416Esme Cullen (Twilight)
1291.47Norman Wilson (The Wire)
1391.47Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans)
1491.114Charlie Young (The West Wing)
1591.06Dembe Zuma (The Blacklist)
1690.719Huyang (Ahsoka)
1790.78Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)
1890.69Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1990.635Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
2090.429Alfred Pennyworth (The Dark Knight)
2189.825Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
2289.56Karl 'Helo' Agathon (Battlestar Galactica)
2389.410Samantha Carter (Stargate SG-1)
2489.123Mammy (Gone With the Wind)
2588.813Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Most unstable characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.212Frank Gallagher (Shameless)
299.115Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
398.353Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
498.018Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
597.79Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
697.123Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
797.148Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
896.821Pennsatucky Doggett (Orange is the New Black)
996.513Prince John (Robin Hood)
1096.421Lorna Morello (Orange is the New Black)
1196.492Homelander (The Boys)
1296.122Will Graham (Hannibal)
1395.98Howard Payne (Speed)
1495.914Ben Chang (Community)
1595.635Rue Bennett (Euphoria)
1695.416Buddy Pine (The Incredibles)
1795.318Love Quinn (You)
1895.326Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)
1995.322Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2095.322Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
2195.315Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2295.39Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
2395.070Tate Langdon (American Horror Story: Season 1)
2494.68Charlie Harper (Two and Half Men)
2594.511Mal Cobb (Inception)

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 stable<--->unstable when aggregated at the character level.

  1. reasonable (not deranged) (r=0.85)
  2. stable (not moody) (r=0.85)
  3. sane (not crazy) (r=0.84)
  4. self-improving (not self-destructive) (r=0.79)
  5. sensible (not ludicrous) (r=0.79)
  6. mild (not manic) (r=0.78)
  7. reliable (not experimental) (r=0.77)
  8. steady (not fickle) (r=0.76)
  9. consistent (not variable) (r=0.73)
  10. orderly (not chaotic) (r=0.73)

Notes

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