Responses to Typical Comments and 
Frequency Asked Questions:

-- We receive an equal number of people praising
the assessment -- who like the way it is worded and
designed -- as we do people who do not like it.

-- If the assessment appears out of alignment or 
otherwise not properly formatted for your screen, then
the problem is your browser.

-- Age and sex matter. Men and women statistically 
significantly rate certain items higher or lower 
(as expected by theory) regardless of their
final results. Response patterns also tend to vary 
with age regardless of a person's results.

-- There are no spelling mistakes in the survey
questions. If you believe otherwise, please 
a) check a dictionary, and b) point out mistakes
specifically. There may be some alternative
spellings, such as extraverted for extroverted,
because these are terms used in Jung's theory.
Periodic updates to the website may also leave
spelling mistakes.

-- The phrases are written at an 8th grade reading
level, the standard for public-use documents. This
was determined using a common measure for reading
level.

-- The assessment is generally not appropriate for 
those under the age of 15 (due to reading level and 
complexity of concepts.)

-- If you believe there is a usage error in a phrase,
please indicate whether you are following Strunk 
and White, Chicago Manual of Style, or some other 
style (usage is relative to a school of editing, not 
an absolute standard.) What many people colloquially 
call "grammar" is actually usage.

-- The words used in the phrases do not have specific
definitions. They were chosen for psychological
appeal (they "sound good" to the right people even
when the exact meaning or intent seems unclear.)

-- If you have an issue with a phrase's construction, 
such as whether the word "always" is logically possible,
then consider the phrase may not be for you. This 
assessment tests personality and cognition, not logical
reasoning (which is only one aspect of cognition.)

-- Some sentence phrasing allows for multiple meanings.
This is deliberate. Some people are very comfortable
with the ambiguity of multiple potential meanings while
others are not. Your response to multiple meanings 
is one aspect of cognition that is being assessed.

-- This is not a purely self-reflective questionnaire.
This is a "cognitive" assessment. This means your ability
to understand the questions is being assessed along with
your self-rating. This approach helps bypass situations of 
uncertain self-knowledge or unconscious influence.

-- It's fine if you didn't understand some phrases;
they likely were not meant for you.

-- This assessment contains numerous colloquial phrases 
and is designed for native English speakers. It is not
suggested for non-native English speakers.

-- The assessment is based on input from other
experts and intensive statistical analysis, and is
still a work in progress. Some phrases or scoring may 
change in the future.

-- Results to-date suggest that the assessment is 
likely to be more accurate with people who don't
know about "psychological type" (aka 4-letter type code) 
compared with people who do.

-- Many questionnaires work best by presenting
phrases out of context; people usually respond
contextually when presented with specific/example 
situations, giving skewed results.

-- Generally, "layperson" phrasing such as "walk 
in another person's shoes" or "think logically" do 
not get at cognitive development since these 
phrases can be interpreted as people please. For 
example, studies show that a great majority of 
people say they "think logically" so this general 
term is not used.

-- This assessment explores cognition, not behavior.
Thus, a phrase such as "enjoys playing sports" is 
easy to understand but is not appropriate since the 
phrase reflects a behavior and asks about preference 
rather than skill level and frequency of use.

-- The phrases are not meant to be "tricky." 

-- Based on feedback and data to-date, Sensing-
preferences folks do not have a harder time with
this survey, as some have wondered. Rather, the
individuals who have the most difficulty with the
survey's questions report preference for introverted 
Thinking (INTP, ENTP, ISTP, ESTP). This may be 
because the phrase definitions are not set, and 
because introverted Thinking is the cognitive process
most used when critiquing.

-- Please use the "comments" box to include any
demographic information you would like to report
beyond what is asked for, or if none of the options
offered in the demographic menus match you (for 
example, if you are transgendered.)

-- If you press the "back" button after you press 
"submit", your browser may delete your responses.
This is caused by your browser and not this website.

-- The creator of this instrument is not an ESTJ,
as some have wondered.

-- A research paper summarizing the study will be 
forthcoming. You can find current research results 
at the bottom of the page that gives your results.

-- Getting accurate results is the ultimate measure 
of a questionnaire's performance. The statistical 
results of the last iteration of this questionnaire 
were very promising. Results here matched people's 
reported 4-letter type code 75 percent of the time
(compared to 6.25 percent by chance alone.) This is
similiar to other well-regarded instruments of this kind. 
Results here matched people's Keirseyian temperament over
95 percent of the time (compared to 25 percent by
chance alone.) And all questions except 2 were highly
correlated with other questions designed to assess
the same cognitive process. 

-- Your feedback is welcome and listened to.

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