How this test is built
Let’s say it right away: this test isn’t a validated psychometric tool. It’s an editorial mirror, built with a method. Here’s that method, and here are its limits.
An agreement scale, from strong disagreement to strong agreement
Each statement is answered on seven levels, from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree,” with a “mixed feelings” point in the middle. Since every statement describes a desire, saying “strongly disagree” means the practice puts you off: the test measures what puts you off just as precisely as what attracts you — whereas most tests only capture attraction, and therefore lose half the information.
The same foundation for everyone
The first 60 statements are identical for everyone. That’s what makes two results comparable: if everyone answered a different questionnaire, the percentages wouldn’t mean anything in relation to each other. Only after that, around twenty statements explore what your first answers left open — often the distinction between two very close profiles.
Two ways of measuring, combined
A profile’s score comes partly from the statements that describe it directly, and partly from the distance between your position on eight desire axes and the expected position for that profile. The weight of the first part increases with the number of direct statements actually asked: that’s why a profile estimated from two answers gets a “refine” label, and why refining it changes its score. The scores are then spread across a shared scale, which neutralizes the fact that some people readily choose the extreme values and others never do.
What this test can’t do
It hasn’t been validated on a sample, it has no published reliability measure, and its 19 profiles are editorial categories, not clinical types. It doesn’t tell you what you are: it offers you a description you’re free not to see yourself in. It doesn’t replace a conversation with a partner, or a professional’s opinion. And it doesn’t predict anything at all.