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Most roots-down or nomadic 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 "roots-down" to "nomadic". 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 "roots-down" is the same as 100/100 for "nomadic". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most roots-down characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.811Shirley Bennett (Community)
296.65King Claudius (Hamlet)
396.17Peter Burke (White Collar)
495.612Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
593.810Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey)
693.712Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
793.33Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
892.85Dennis 'Cutty' Wise (The Wire)
992.45Randall Pearson (This Is Us)
1091.74Danny Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1191.08Missy Armitage (Get Out)
1290.114Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
1389.915Carla Espinosa (Scrubs)
1489.86Maurice Levy (The Wire)
1589.511Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1689.410Monica Geller (Friends)
1789.47Jerry Gergich (Parks and Recreation)
1889.45The Doctor (Star Trek: Voyager)
1988.916Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey)
2088.48Waverly Earp (Wynonna Earp)
2188.027John Dutton (Yellowstone)
2287.18Henry Francis (Mad Men)
2386.65Miguel Rivas (This Is Us)
2486.69Wallace Boden (Chicago Fire)
2586.515Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)

Most nomadic characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
196.86Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity)
293.84Raymond 'Red' Reddington (The Blacklist)
392.914Villanelle (Killing Eve)
489.88Mozzie (White Collar)
588.04Oscar Bluth (Arrested Development)
687.77Bertram Gilfoyle (Silicon Valley)
787.48the Alien (Alien)
887.010Alex Kamal (The Expanse)
987.08Jessa Johansson (Girls)
1086.08Murphy MacManus (The Boondock Saints)
1185.918Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly + Serenity)
1285.68Stan Rizzo (Mad Men)
1385.514Inara Serra (Firefly + Serenity)
1484.710Heather Davis (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
1584.611Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1684.315Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
1783.08Roy Petty (Ozark)
1883.07Jian-Yang (Silicon Valley)
1982.98Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
2082.86Kate Austen (LOST)
2182.611Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
2282.519Ciri (The Witcher)
2382.58Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
2482.311Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
2582.212Jaskier (The Witcher)

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 roots-down<--->nomadic when aggregated at the character level.

  1. traditional (not unorthodox) (r=0.63)
  2. permanent (not transient) (r=0.59)
  3. statist (not anarchist) (r=0.59)
  4. classical (not avant-garde) (r=0.59)
  5. builder (not explorer) (r=0.58)
  6. sheriff (not outlaw) (r=0.58)
  7. stick-in-the-mud (not adventurous) (r=0.57)
  8. homebody (not world traveler) (r=0.55)
  9. corporate (not freelance) (r=0.55)
  10. scheduled (not spontaneous) (r=0.53)

Notes

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