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

Most devout characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
194.917Barbara Howard (Abbott Elementary)
293.3397Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
392.686Francis Mulcahy (M*A*S*H)
492.5113Kenneth Parcell (30 Rock)
592.3319Shirley Bennett (Community)
690.8316Charlie Carson (Downton Abbey)
790.4304Derrial Book (Firefly + Serenity)
890.312Frank Reagan (Blue Bloods)
990.36Erin Reagan (Blue Bloods)
1089.8307Mary Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
1189.329Yoda (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith)
1288.9283Josiah Bartlet (The West Wing)
1388.428Gary Walsh (Veep)
1487.236Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
1586.8278Elsie Carson (Downton Abbey)
1686.7251Brienne of Tarth (Game of Thrones)
1786.312Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)
1886.0457Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
1985.828Mammy (Gone With the Wind)
2085.732Melanie Hamilton (Gone With the Wind)
2185.5660Captain America (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
2285.3241Eddard Stark (Game of Thrones)
2384.4359Jane Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
2484.4305Beth March (Little Women)
2584.3187Kira Nerys (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

Most heathen characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
192.314Sterling Archer (Archer)
291.221Baron Vladimir Harkonnen (Dune)
389.840Ilana Wexler (Broad City)
489.416Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
588.4192Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley)
687.9255Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
787.840Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
887.524Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
987.434Frank Costello (The Departed)
1087.3808Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
1186.714Ginny Miller (Ginny & Georgia)
1286.556Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers)
1386.3306Ben Chang (Community)
1485.741Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama)
1585.6415Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
1685.540Dennis Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1785.415Ava Coleman (Abbott Elementary)
1885.4560Meredith Palmer (The Office)
1985.3359The Joker (The Dark Knight)
2085.321Cheryl Tunt (Archer)
2185.1874April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
2285.059Eric Cartman (South Park)
2384.949Dee Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
2484.827Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
2584.4318Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)

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 devout<--->heathen when aggregated at the character level.

  1. proper (not scandalous) (r=0.82)
  2. well behaved (not mischievous) (r=0.82)
  3. white knight (not bad boy) (r=0.78)
  4. seemly (not inappropriate) (r=0.78)
  5. monastic (not hedonist) (r=0.77)
  6. good-manners (not bad-manners) (r=0.76)
  7. clean (not perverted) (r=0.76)
  8. politically correct (not edgy) (r=0.76)
  9. nice (not naughty) (r=0.75)
  10. respectful (not rude) (r=0.75)

Notes

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