The trait questions are open
240 questions about how you usually are.
You can answer them now. You will not get a score at the end, and the reason for that is worth reading before you start rather than after.
They come ten to a page, so there are twenty-four pages, and each page is saved when you finish it. You can do the whole thing in one sitting or a page at a time over a fortnight; stopping between pages costs you nothing.
Like to solve complex problems.
- Very inaccurate
- Moderately inaccurate
- Neither inaccurate nor accurate
- Moderately accurate
- Very accurate
You pick one. There is no right answer and nothing is timed — the question is how accurately the sentence describes you, not how well you can describe yourself.
The questions begin straight after. An email and a password is all of it — your answers are saved a page of ten at a time, and there has to be something to save them against. Already have an account.
Why there is no score yet
A result would say where you sit compared with other people. There is a group to compare against — adults from Eugene and Springfield, two cities in Oregon, who answered these same questions for a research institute. They are very unlikely to be much like you, and when a reading does appear it will say so plainly rather than hide whose average it is using.
The second reason is the one we care about more. The full assessment was designed to include standard screening questions about mood and anxiety, and one of them asks about thoughts of self-harm. Questions like that carry a duty: the thresholds that decide what happens next, and the words on the screen when it happens, have to be reviewed and signed off by a licensed clinician before a single real person answers them. That review has not happened.
So those questions are not in the test you can take today, and nothing here will ask you about self-harm. What is open is the trait half: how you usually are, not how you are coping this week.
What it asks
- Traits — open now. 240 statements from the International Personality Item Pool, a public-domain set used in published research. They cover twenty-four narrower facets across the five broad personality domains, plus honesty and humility. You rate each one from very inaccurate to very accurate.
- How things are right now — not open. Short, standard screening scales for mood and anxiety, measuring your current state rather than who you are. These are the questions waiting on clinical sign-off, and they are not in the test today.
- Nothing you write freely. Version one asks no open-text questions, so there is no narrative about you stored anywhere.
What will happen to your answers
Your answers are stored separately from your identity and linked only by a key that staff cannot resolve. No member of staff can read an individual’s answers. Every signal the system holds about you has a screen you can read yourself, and you can export all of it or delete all of it.