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Most suspends-disbelief or picks-apart-plots 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 "suspends-disbelief" to "picks-apart-plots". 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 "suspends-disbelief" is the same as 100/100 for "picks-apart-plots". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most suspends-disbelief characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
187.620Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
286.315Josh Chan (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
385.318Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
484.56Jonathan 'Gabe' Gabriel (Penny Arcade)
583.89Cyndee Pokorny (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
681.86Craig Pelton (Community)
781.68Buster Bluth (Arrested Development)
880.86Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
979.210Tom Haverford (Parks and Recreation)
1079.05Duke Orsino (Twelfth Night)
1178.99Roderick Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)
1278.715Jeff Portnoy (Tropic Thunder)
1378.69Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)
1478.528Kevin Malone (The Office)
1578.48Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
1678.322Gary Walsh (Veep)
1777.715Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
1877.416Jenna Maroney (30 Rock)
1977.47Ed Hurley (Twin Peaks)
2077.17Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
2176.419Maria (West Side Story)
2276.47Bob Pinciotti (That 70's Show)
2376.421Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2476.28Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
2576.06Sam Evans (Glee)

Most picks-apart-plots characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.26Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
290.56Kalinda Sharma (The Good Wife)
389.615Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
488.911Paul Smecker (The Boondock Saints)
588.67Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones)
688.07Rintarou Okabe (Steins;Gate)
787.85Dennis 'Cutty' Wise (The Wire)
887.76Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
987.67Dr. Chan Kaifang (Space Force)
1087.29Ray Ploshansky (Girls)
1186.915Toby Ziegler (The West Wing)
1286.612Jeff Winger (Community)
1386.417Dan Egan (Veep)
1486.45Alexander Conklin (The Bourne Identity)
1585.920Perry Cox (Scrubs)
1685.821Lord Larys Strong (House of the Dragon)
1785.711Sarah O'Brien (Downton Abbey)
1885.54C. J. Cregg (The West Wing)
1985.411William Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
2085.310Ender Wiggin (Ender's Game)
2185.341Dr. Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)
2285.25Aeryn Sun (Farscape)
2385.06John Galt (Atlas Shrugged)
2484.913Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2584.69Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)

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 suspends-disbelief<--->picks-apart-plots when aggregated at the character level.

  1. low IQ (not high IQ) (r=0.57)
  2. dunce (not genius) (r=0.55)
  3. unobservant (not perceptive) (r=0.53)
  4. oblivious (not alert) (r=0.52)
  5. absentminded (not focused) (r=0.51)
  6. vague (not precise) (r=0.51)
  7. ignorant (not knowledgeable) (r=0.5)
  8. dull (not sharp) (r=0.49)
  9. incompetent (not competent) (r=0.49)
  10. feeler (not thinker) (r=0.49)

Notes

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