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

Most empirical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.120Logan Roy (Succession)
288.613Inspector Kido (The Man in the High Castle)
384.221Palpatine (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
484.114Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)
583.712Lloyd (Yellowstone)
683.585Homelander (The Boys)
783.513John Dutton (Yellowstone)
883.36Eric O'Bannon (Bloodline)
983.029Dagny Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
1082.7435Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1182.116Marcia Roy (Succession)
1281.8490Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1381.612Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1481.225Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
1580.2294Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1680.226Tony Soprano (The Sopranos)
1780.117Asuka Langly Soryu (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
1879.919Malory Archer (Archer)
1979.2182Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2079.2119the Alien (Alien)
2179.221General Hux (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
2278.920Madeline Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher)
2378.693Jack Donaghy (30 Rock)
2478.619Shin Hati (Ahsoka)
2578.321Nathaniel 'Hawkeye' Poe (The Last of the Mohicans)

Most theoretical characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
182.2199Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)
280.25Sebastian (Twelfth Night)
379.825Connor Deslauriers (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
476.98Neelix (Star Trek: Voyager)
576.312Mozzie (White Collar)
675.221Dr. Jennifer Melfi (The Sopranos)
775.015Istredd (The Witcher)
874.821Clare Edwards (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
973.6514Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
1073.629Monty Green (The 100)
1172.976Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
1272.519Robert Langdon (The Da Vinci Code)
1372.3105Dr. Harry Wells (The Flash)
1472.056Dr. Shaun Murphy (The Good Doctor)
1571.916Viktor (Arcane)
1671.9255Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
1771.814Jonathan 'Gabe' Gabriel (Penny Arcade)
1871.519Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1971.411Matt Braden (After Life)
2071.021Ben Stone (Manifest)
2170.69Shuichi Aizawa (Death Note)
2270.642Leslie Thompkins (Gotham)
2370.645Professor Oak (Pokémon)
2470.5537Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
2570.523Liberty Van Zandt (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

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 empirical<--->theoretical when aggregated at the character level.

  1. ferocious (not pacifist) (r=0.55)
  2. jock (not nerd) (r=0.53)
  3. hard (not soft) (r=0.53)
  4. hard (not soft) (r=0.53)
  5. hunter (not gatherer) (r=0.52)
  6. lion (not zebra) (r=0.5)
  7. fighter (not lover) (r=0.5)
  8. suspicious (not awkward) (r=0.49)
  9. doer (not thinker) (r=0.49)
  10. real (not philosophical) (r=0.48)

Notes

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