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

Most overthinker characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.727Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
297.413Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
397.410Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
497.216Burton Guster (Psych)
596.812Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
696.427Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
796.427Cameron Frye (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
896.427Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
996.217Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
1096.213Sherlock Holmes (Elementary)
1196.221Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1296.023Dwight Schrute (The Office)
1395.48Rachel Berry (Glee)
1495.210Tony Johnson (After Life)
1594.926Marlin (Finding Nemo)
1694.910Alexis Castle (Castle)
1794.86Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate)
1894.721Rust Cohle (True Detective)
1994.37George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
2094.334Amy Elliott Dunne (Gone Girl)
2194.216Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
2294.212Viktor (Arcane)
2394.116Janine Teagues (Abbott Elementary)
2494.025Randall Pearson (This Is Us)
2594.025Edward Nygma (Gotham)

Most underthinker characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
198.39Kevin Malone (The Office)
295.38Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
394.47Noah Puckerman (Glee)
494.410Brittany Pierce (Glee)
593.114Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
692.812Spike (The Land Before Time)
792.419Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
892.220Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
990.725Joey Donner (10 Things I Hate About You)
1090.625Arturo Roman (Money Heist)
1190.616Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1289.020Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
1388.814Gino (Baby Reindeer)
1488.09Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
1587.822Ed (Shaun of the Dead)
1687.715Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1787.618Karen Smith (Mean Girls)
1887.014Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1987.019Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
2086.711Linda Montag (Fahrenheit 451)
2186.76Lenny (After Life)
2285.97Midge Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
2385.813Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
2485.415Nelson Muntz (The Simpsons)
2585.327Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)

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 overthinker<--->underthinker when aggregated at the character level.

  1. high IQ (not low IQ) (r=0.67)
  2. intellectual (not physical) (r=0.67)
  3. studious (not goof-off) (r=0.65)
  4. 🧠 (not 💪) (r=0.65)
  5. big-vocabulary (not small-vocabulary) (r=0.64)
  6. genius (not dunce) (r=0.62)
  7. knowledgeable (not ignorant) (r=0.62)
  8. diligent (not lazy) (r=0.62)
  9. workaholic (not slacker) (r=0.62)
  10. perfectionist (not good-enough) (r=0.61)

Notes

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