Once you have completed the questionnaire you’ll receive your personality report containing a visual overview of your personality and then a more detailed written breakdown of each trait.

When working out your results we compare your scores against the average personality of a UK representative sample of other people who have also taken the test. This enables you to see how you compare to ‘the average person’ and means we can say things such as: ‘You are more extraverted than 70% of people.’ The dotted line down the middle of your results chart indicates where the ‘average person’s’ results would be plotted. How close or far away from this line your results fall determine whether you are more or less of a certain trait than the average population.

The written results you receive are based on years of research. The statements are based on the most usual behaviours and thoughts that we have observed for people with results similar to yours. You will hopefully find them accurate, although you may find the occasional statement that you don’t completely agree with.

Comparing yourself to others.
When comparing your results against a friend or against how others see you we generate two types of results, a similarity score and a written evaluation. The similarity score is calculated by working out the size of differences between you and your friend; then through a relatively complex equation, it compares the number of actual differences against the number of possible differences to give you a percentage score of similarity between the two of you. The written evaluation you see when you compare yourself to a friend or to how others see you, explores the bigger differences between your personality and your friend’s personality, or your personality and the way that others see you. Although you may notice there are small differences on the chart. We only provide written feedback once there is a reasonable gap between your results and others,

Although you may notice small differences on the chart we don’t highlight these in the written report until there is a reasonable gap between you and others.