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METHOD · NOT A CLAIM OF SCIENCE

How these quizzes actually work

Most personality tests either cite a validated instrument or imply one. These do neither, so the honest alternative is to show the working: what each quiz measures, how a result is arrived at, which outcomes are common, and what none of it is entitled to claim about you.

What this is not

Not based on attachment theory, love languages, the Big Five, MBTI, or any published scale. Not a validated instrument, not a diagnosis, and not evidence about a past life. The archive suggests a resemblance; it never asserts one.

Where the dimensions came from

They were written for these quizzes. That is a real limitation and it is the reason this page exists — nothing here inherits credibility from somewhere else, so the only thing on offer is a clear account of the mechanism.

Why an odd number of questions

Five per dimension, never four. An even count lets a dimension tie, and a scorer full of ties collapses almost everyone onto the same fallback result — which is exactly what an early version of the pair quiz did, at 78.8% before it was fixed.

What is stored

A first name and five scored leans. Never your individual answers. Pair sessions are deleted after 30 days, and there are no accounts to create.

Past Life Duo · five dimensions

Twenty-five either-or questions, five per dimension. Whichever pole wins the majority is your lean — so a lean is 5–0, 4–1 or 3–2, and never a tie.

  • Sovereign / HandWhether you take the center of the room or shape the room from beside it.
  • Direct / ObliqueWhether you go straight through an obstacle or route around it.
  • Sworn / EarnedWhether trust is sworn once or renewed by evidence.
  • Spark / AnchorWhether you start fires or decide which fires get to keep burning.
  • Open / VeiledWhether your inner weather is visible or edited before it arrives.

The couples edition · five different dimensions

Deliberately sharing no axis with the pair quiz, so a couple who takes both is not answering the same twenty-five questions in new clothes.

  • Crown / ConsortWhether you decide what the two of you are doing, or whether it is worth doing.
  • One Court / Two CourtsWhether this is one life shared, or two lives kept alongside each other.
  • Common Purse / Separate PurseWhether what you have is pooled by default, or stays yours.
  • Steward / EnvoyWhether you keep the inside of the life running, or handle what arrives from outside.
  • Open Hand / Closed HandWhether you hold what matters with an open hand, or a closed one.

Its 10 verdicts are listed at /couples/archetype.

How two people become one verdict

Both sets of five leans go through a rule table in fixed priority order, and the first rule that matches wins. More specific pairings are tested before broader ones, which is why a pair that would satisfy several rules gets the sharpest one rather than the loosest. There is no score, no percentage and no compatibility rating — the output is one of 10 named results.

  • The Rival Crowns“The treaty bears two signatures. Both are slightly larger than agreed.”
  • The Wary Negotiators“Correspondence: 214 letters. Declarations of friendship: 214. Troop movements: also 214.”
  • The Sovereign & The Hand“The decree carries one name. The handwriting belongs to someone else.”
  • The Sworn Blades“Cause of alliance: unclear. Duration: until further notice, where 'further notice' does not exist.”
  • The Co-Conspirators“No records exist of this meeting. Both parties confirm it went well.”
  • The Spark & The Anchor“One proposed the voyage. One packed the water. Both are listed as 'essential crew.'”
  • The Mirror Duel“Witnesses could not agree which of the two started it. Several suggested they were the same person.”
  • The Teacher & The Fire“The student claims to have learned nothing. The student's every recorded decision suggests otherwise.”
  • The Unlikely Truce“By all strategic logic, these two should not get along. The archive has no explanation for the laughter.”
  • The Quiet Alliance“Nothing dramatic is recorded about this pair. Historians note this is usually the sign of something working.”

Which results are common

They are not evenly likely, and the quiz does not pretend otherwise. Simulated against random answering, The Quiet Alliance comes back for roughly 29% of pairs while The Wary Negotiators reaches about 3%. Real answering is not random, so the true spread will differ.

Why your result can feel accurate

Partly because the questions are about real habits. Partly because any description written well enough will find purchase — that effect is well documented and it applies here too. Both things are true at once, and knowing the second does not spoil the first.

Is it repeatable

Roughly, not exactly. Answers given on instinct move a little between sittings, and a 3–2 dimension can flip where a 5–0 will not. A result that changes when you answer differently is the scorer working, not failing.

Who wrote it

One person, with no clinical training, which is precisely why nothing here is framed as clinical. It is built for recognition and conversation — the pleasure of being described, not the authority of being assessed.

YOUR TURN

Now that you know how it works, it still works.

Twenty-five either-or questions each, about three minutes. One of you answers, sends a link, the other answers the same twenty-five — then one shared verdict. Free, no sign-up, nothing to buy.

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Entertainment and personal reflection only—not a diagnosis or proof of reincarnation.