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

Most direct characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.912Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
297.715Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
397.110Amos Burton (The Expanse)
496.738Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)
596.455Temperance Brennan (Bones)
695.7922Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
794.9590Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
894.7411Red Forman (That 70's Show)
994.727T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
1094.626Dina Fox (Superstore)
1194.020Shirley Schmidt (Boston Legal)
1294.0374Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory)
1393.9195Worf (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1493.8125Kara 'Starbuck' Thrace (Battlestar Galactica)
1593.6591Miranda Bailey (Grey's Anatomy)
1693.5173Teal'c (Stargate SG-1)
1793.487Sue Sylvester (Glee)
1893.323Worf (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1993.2309Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2093.281Levi Ackermann (Attack on Titan)
2193.1324Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
2292.912Seven of Nine (Star Trek: Voyager)
2392.5627Samantha Jones (Sex and the City)
2492.466John Wick (John Wick)
2592.311Bobbie Draper (The Expanse)

Most roundabout characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
188.015Greg Hirsch (Succession)
285.959George Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)
385.8288Petyr Baelish (Game of Thrones)
485.1140Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
584.830James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged)
684.735Glenn Sturgis (Superstore)
783.925Jacob Hill (Abbott Elementary)
883.617Shinji Ikari (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
982.970Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
1082.050John Michael Dorian (Scrubs)
1181.731Mike McLintock (Veep)
1281.511Leslie Higgins (Ted Lasso)
1381.331Gary Walsh (Veep)
1481.0154Alfredo Linguini (Ratatouille)
1580.555Susan Mayer (Desperate Housewives)
1680.410Matt Braden (After Life)
1779.610Neelix (Star Trek: Voyager)
1879.520Cyril Figgis (Archer)
1979.229Donny Dunn (Baby Reindeer)
2078.814Nathan Shelley (Ted Lasso)
2178.5187Elim Garak (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
2278.218Prince Hamlet (Hamlet)
2378.0321George Wickham (Pride and Prejudice)
2477.9662Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby)
2577.820Shawn Spencer (Psych)

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 direct<--->roundabout when aggregated at the character level.

  1. frank (not sugarcoated) (r=0.73)
  2. assertive (not passive) (r=0.71)
  3. firm (not shaky) (r=0.7)
  4. decisive (not hesitant) (r=0.69)
  5. sturdy (not flimsy) (r=0.69)
  6. mighty (not puny) (r=0.68)
  7. dominant (not submissive) (r=0.68)
  8. alpha (not beta) (r=0.68)
  9. armoured (not vulnerable) (r=0.68)
  10. resolute (not wavering) (r=0.67)

Notes

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