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Most self-reflective or outward-focused 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 "self-reflective" to "outward-focused". 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 "self-reflective" is the same as 100/100 for "outward-focused". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most self-reflective characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
189.36Meg Rayburn (Bloodline)
287.412Sun Bak (Sense8)
385.73Aimee Finecky (The Spectacular Now)
484.311'Chief' Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
584.05Aram Mojtabai (The Blacklist)
682.98Riley Blue (Sense8)
782.920Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
881.69Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
981.45Miguel Rivas (This Is Us)
1080.632Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
1180.26Tony Johnson (After Life)
1279.621Iroh (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1379.29Tuvok (Star Trek: Voyager)
1478.56Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
1578.45Beth Pearson (This Is Us)
1677.916Brandon Stark (Game of Thrones)
1777.26Ed Hurley (Twin Peaks)
1877.013Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal)
1976.17Buck Vu (The OA)
2075.834Rei Ayanami (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
2175.772Charlie Kelmeckis (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
2275.713Allie Rajan (CSI: Vegas)
2375.410Esme Cullen (Twilight)
2475.011Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
2575.08Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)

Most outward-focused characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.48Quark (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
290.710Carol 'Mom' Miller (Futurama)
390.710Captain Hammer (Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog)
490.56Quentin Lance (Arrow)
590.05Huck (Scandal)
689.98Darlene Snell (Ozark)
788.213Shawn Spencer (Psych)
888.112Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
988.08Ben Chang (Community)
1087.54Maurice Levy (The Wire)
1187.25James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
1285.514Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
1385.417Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1485.012Dan Egan (Veep)
1584.99Donna Meagle (Parks and Recreation)
1684.710Colin Sullivan (The Departed)
1784.45Malvolio (Twelfth Night)
1884.410Ziggy Sobotka (The Wire)
1984.311David Della Rocco (The Boondock Saints)
2084.319Malory Archer (Archer)
2184.012Bob Kelso (Scrubs)
2283.411Noah Puckerman (Glee)
2383.47Catherine Martell (Twin Peaks)
2483.411O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
2583.09Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)

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 self-reflective<--->outward-focused when aggregated at the character level.

  1. introspective (not not introspective) (r=0.6)
  2. attentive (not interrupting) (r=0.52)
  3. deep (not shallow) (r=0.52)
  4. quiet (not loud) (r=0.5)
  5. patient (not impatient) (r=0.48)
  6. demure (not vain) (r=0.47)
  7. sensible (not ludicrous) (r=0.46)
  8. 😊 (not 🤣) (r=0.46)
  9. respectful (not rude) (r=0.46)
  10. deep (not epic) (r=0.45)

Notes

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