About the tests
The Personality Report offers free personality tests with the result shown on screen, no email asked, and an optional paid report for people who want more detail. This page explains how each test works.
The Enneagram test
We wrote the 72 statements for this site: eight for each of the nine types, mixed together so that neighbouring questions rarely measure the same type. Each answer scores from 1 (disagree) to 5 (agree). The score for each type is the total of its eight answers, rescaled from 0 to 100. Your type is your highest score, and your wing is the higher of the two types beside it on the circle. If your top two scores are within 5 points, the result says so.
We have not run a validation study on these statements. The Enneagram itself is a framework for reflection, not an established scientific measure, so treat your type as a starting point and read the descriptions to see what fits.
The Big Five test
The Big Five test uses the 50-item Big-Five Factor Markers from the International Personality Item Pool (ipip.ori.org), developed by Lewis Goldberg. The IPIP states that its items are in the public domain. Each trait is the sum of ten answers after reverse-scoring the statements that point the other way.
To turn a score into a percentile, we compare it with 6,797 US adults (aged 18 to 90) who answered the same 50 statements in the public Big Five dataset released by Open Psychometrics (collected around 2012). Below the 30th percentile is labelled low, above the 70th high.
What the results are not
These tests describe personality. They are not a diagnosis, and they should not be used for hiring decisions. If you are worried about your mental health, talk to a doctor or a licensed professional.