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

Most strict characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.6352Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter)
296.9492Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
396.032Logan Roy (Succession)
495.710O'Brien (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
595.6547Angela Martin (The Office)
695.3495Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
795.339Nurse Mildred Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
895.1389Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter)
994.917John Smith (The Man in the High Castle)
1094.9467Agent Smith (The Matrix)
1194.935Carlton Lassiter (Psych)
1294.899Principal Vernon (The Breakfast Club)
1394.8954Coriolanus Snow (The Hunger Games)
1494.7272Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1594.546Javert (Les Misérables)
1694.41044Darth Vader (Star Wars)
1794.4569Dwight Schrute (The Office)
1894.284Father Faustus Blackwood (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)
1994.0477Red Forman (That 70's Show)
2094.0669Thanos (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
2193.725Squidward Tentacles (SpongeBob SquarePants)
2293.6174Chef Skinner (Ratatouille)
2393.4420Mr. Burns (The Simpsons)
2493.4523Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
2593.2374Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice)

Most lenient characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
193.8196Nelson Bighetti (Silicon Valley)
293.6696June George (Mean Girls)
393.4176Jason Mendoza (The Good Place)
492.8113Klaus Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)
592.526Shawn Spencer (Psych)
692.528Patrick Star (SpongeBob SquarePants)
792.1395George Weasley (Harry Potter)
891.840Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
991.410Roman Roy (Succession)
1091.3294Jake Peralta (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
1191.3459Michael Kelso (That 70's Show)
1291.2450Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1390.7429Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
1490.516Sasha Braus (Attack on Titan)
1590.2193Olaf (Frozen)
1690.2213Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
1790.229Reese Wilkerson (Malcolm in the Middle)
1889.661Gene Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
1989.6409Goh Peik Lin (Crazy Rich Asians)
2089.61408Pumbaa (The Lion King)
2189.4107Pinkie Pie (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
2289.26Kevin Rayburn (Bloodline)
2389.0583Kevin Malone (The Office)
2489.01252Joey Tribbiani (Friends)
2588.913Mayuri Shiina (Steins;Gate)

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 strict<--->lenient when aggregated at the character level.

  1. tight (not loose) (r=0.85)
  2. uptight (not easy) (r=0.84)
  3. rigid (not flexible) (r=0.83)
  4. serious (not playful) (r=0.82)
  5. deliberate (not spontaneous) (r=0.77)
  6. unfrivolous (not goofy) (r=0.77)
  7. militaristic (not hippie) (r=0.76)
  8. pointed (not random) (r=0.76)
  9. formal (not intimate) (r=0.75)
  10. OCD (not ADHD) (r=0.74)

Notes

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