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Most blue-collar or ivory-tower 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 "blue-collar" to "ivory-tower". 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 "blue-collar" is the same as 100/100 for "ivory-tower". See the documentation for more information about how these ratings were collected.

Most blue-collar characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
199.314Jim (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
297.58Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
396.213Rip Wheeler (Yellowstone)
496.013Amos Burton (The Expanse)
595.8113Frank Sobotka (The Wire)
694.8323Jayne Cobb (Firefly + Serenity)
793.9100Dennis 'Cutty' Wise (The Wire)
893.5126Galen Tyrol (Battlestar Galactica)
993.2300Beryl Patmore (Downton Abbey)
1093.1125Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins (The Wire)
1192.8107Nick Sobotka (The Wire)
1292.537Kim Ki-taek (Parasite)
1392.1134Ed Hurley (Twin Peaks)
1491.515Perrin Aybara (Wheel of Time)
1591.1378Barney Gumble (The Simpsons)
1691.1306Kaylee Frye (Firefly + Serenity)
1791.012Mat Cauthon (Wheel of Time)
1890.8105Preston 'Bodie' Broadus (The Wire)
1990.8333Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly + Serenity)
2090.2107Thomas 'Herc' Hauk (The Wire)
2190.2304Daisy Mason (Downton Abbey)
2290.1102Chris Partlow (The Wire)
2390.017Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
2489.930Tina (The Bear)
2589.728Wyatt Langmore (Ozark)

Most ivory-tower characters

RankAverage ratingNumber of ratersName
197.315Malory Archer (Archer)
296.920Dominar Rygel XVI (Farscape)
395.616Queen Gertrude (Hamlet)
495.2286Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
594.9192Gavin Belson (Silicon Valley)
694.4113Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica)
793.927Commodus (Gladiator)
893.9306Lady Catherine de Bourgh (Pride and Prejudice)
993.274Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development)
1093.124Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
1193.1271Cersei Lannister (Game of Thrones)
1293.09Chrisjen Avasarala (The Expanse)
1392.3156Winn Adami (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
1492.076Lindsay Bluth Funke (Arrested Development)
1591.6424Firelord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
1691.2237Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
1791.0314Robert Crawley, 7th Earl of Grantham (Downton Abbey)
1890.921Connor Roy (Succession)
1990.856Prince Humperdinck (The Princess Bride)
2090.824Roman Roy (Succession)
2190.7233Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
2290.524Shiv Roy (Succession)
2390.463Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)
2490.135Kendall Roy (Succession)
2590.1311Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)

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 blue-collar<--->ivory-tower when aggregated at the character level.

  1. proletariat (not bourgeoisie) (r=0.88)
  2. poor (not rich) (r=0.79)
  3. 🧢 (not 🎩) (r=0.69)
  4. lowbrow (not highbrow) (r=0.68)
  5. provincial (not cosmopolitan) (r=0.68)
  6. thrifty (not extravagant) (r=0.68)
  7. 👨‍🔧 (not 👨‍⚕️) (r=0.67)
  8. frugal (not lavish) (r=0.67)
  9. rugged (not refined) (r=0.66)
  10. oppressed (not privileged) (r=0.66)

Notes

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