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

Most reasoned characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.07Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
293.838Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
389.118Calvin's dad (Calvin and Hobbes)
488.4511Rupert Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
588.318Gregory Eddie (Abbott Elementary)
688.133Dr. Adrian Mallory (Space Force)
787.91028C-3PO (Star Wars)
887.935Burton Guster (Psych)
987.022Huyang (Ahsoka)
1087.0458Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
1186.332Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility)
1285.7511Dana Scully (The X-Files)
1385.026Lincoln Rice (Broad City)
1484.932Ben Wyatt (Parks and Recreation)
1584.925Richard Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)
1684.8168Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
1784.5401Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
1884.3189Jared Dunn (Silicon Valley)
1984.2287Amy Santiago (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2084.2129Vision (WandaVision)
2184.0334Simon Tam (Firefly + Serenity)
2283.9393Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
2383.81004Mycroft Holmes (Sherlock)
2483.731Hermes Conrad (Futurama)
2583.6292Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Most instinctual characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.8246Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
291.712Amos Burton (The Expanse)
391.446Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
490.939Martha Scott (Baby Reindeer)
590.998Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
690.947Darlene Snell (Ozark)
790.789the Alien (Alien)
890.7434Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
990.69Steve Winchell (The OA)
1090.5303Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
1190.5533Gollum (Lord of the Rings)
1290.4137Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
1389.714Kelly Severide (Chicago Fire)
1489.641Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1589.6443Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
1689.521Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1789.3593Michael Scott (The Office)
1889.320Don Quijote (Don Quixote)
1989.219Dashiell Parr (The Incredibles)
2089.1445Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
2188.938Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2288.823Philip J. Fry (Futurama)
2388.776Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
2488.6367Bellatrix Lestrange (Harry Potter)
2588.640Jessa Johansson (Girls)

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 reasoned<--->instinctual when aggregated at the character level.

  1. cautious (not impulsive) (r=0.86)
  2. orderly (not chaotic) (r=0.82)
  3. scheduled (not spontaneous) (r=0.78)
  4. 👩‍🔬 (not 👩‍🎤) (r=0.77)
  5. rational (not whimsical) (r=0.75)
  6. on-time (not tardy) (r=0.73)
  7. proper (not scandalous) (r=0.73)
  8. deliberate (not spontaneous) (r=0.73)
  9. mature (not juvenile) (r=0.73)
  10. scholarly (not crafty) (r=0.72)

Notes

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