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Most story-driven or data-driven 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 "story-driven" to "data-driven". 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 "story-driven" is the same as 100/100 for "data-driven". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most story-driven characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.17Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
295.225Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
394.911Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
494.97Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
594.98Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
694.67Pierce Hawthorne (Community)
793.98Martha Rodgers (Castle)
893.79Prairie Johnson (The OA)
993.318Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
1093.26F. Tony Scarapiducci (Space Force)
1192.58Lito Rodriguez (Sense8)
1291.39Tim Riggins (Friday Night Lights)
1389.911Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
1489.815Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
1589.859Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
1689.74Oscar Bluth (Arrested Development)
1789.47Jake Sisko (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1889.28Sutter Keely (The Spectacular Now)
1989.217Phoebe Buffay (Friends)
2089.218Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2189.07Guinan (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2288.97Britta Perry (Community)
2388.910Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)
2488.918Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2588.811Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)

Most data-driven characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
195.761Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
294.67Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
393.38Joey Lucas (The West Wing)
492.525Temperance Brennan (Bones)
591.910Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (Futurama)
691.411Elliot Alderson (Mr. Robot)
791.07Dr. Adrian Mallory (Space Force)
890.0130Alex Dunphy (Modern Family)
990.058Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
1089.774Janet (The Good Place)
1188.731Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor)
1287.79Mark Brendanawicz (Parks and Recreation)
1387.611Abe Weissman (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
1487.07Connor Deslauriers (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
1586.512Marty Byrde (Ozark)
1686.513Huyang (Ahsoka)
1786.411Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
1885.417Leo Fitz (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
1985.112Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2084.790Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
2184.7157Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2284.45Curtis Holt (Arrow)
2384.310Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
2484.19Richard Hendricks (Silicon Valley)
2584.04Janet Fraiser (Stargate SG-1)

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 story-driven<--->data-driven when aggregated at the character level.

  1. artistic (not scientific) (r=0.76)
  2. intuitive (not analytical) (r=0.75)
  3. emotional (not logical) (r=0.71)
  4. feeler (not thinker) (r=0.69)
  5. literary (not mathematical) (r=0.68)
  6. 👻 (not 🤖) (r=0.68)
  7. astonishing (not methodical) (r=0.68)
  8. poetic (not factual) (r=0.67)
  9. photographer (not physicist) (r=0.66)
  10. 👩‍🎤 (not 👩‍🔬) (r=0.66)

Notes

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