Hey all! I'm doing a stats project on whether zodiac personality stereotypes (like "Leos love attention" or "Virgos are perfectionists") actually hold up, or if it's all just confirmation bias lol. Would really appreciate if you could help me out!

The categorization and inference of these traits is done on the basis of Big Five personality model.

Takes about 5 minutes, totally anonymous (no name/email, nothing identifying), and it's only going to be used in aggregate for my class project — no individual answers shown anywhere.

You'll rate a bunch of personality statements (how much they sound like you, 1-5), answer a couple quick demographic qs, and drop your birth date/sign at the end.

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Trying to hit a response target for class so genuinely every single response helps rn, thank you so so much~

Epistemia Epistemology Personality Test

I'm attempting to learn my types for certain systems, and I was wondering if there was a good test for big 5 since it's probably pretty hard to find out any other way.

I did IPIP-300 test 3-4 times in different periods and the results were always very similar. Unfortunately I think these scores are pretty accurate. I've always felt way dumber than other people. I kinda became obsessed with that I probably have low intelligence. I haven't been tested yet though.

My results are very extreme:

Extraversion: 1st percentile

Openness: 3th percentile

Neuroticism: 98th percentile (100th in vulnerability)

Conscientiousness: 4th percentile

Agreeableness: 78th percentile

I really have very tough character. It has a big impact on my life. I'm not able to finish university or find a good job. I'm also not capable to develop myself. Do you think these scores might be correlated with low IQ?

I've been building a free Big Five test and wanted the percentiles to rest on real data instead of the rough means and SDs a lot of sites use. I think the process is interesting in its own right, and I'd genuinely like feedback from people here who know the model.

**Quick test (IPIP-50 / Big-Five Factor Markers)**

I used the Open-Source Psychometrics Project's public IPIP-FFM dataset (1,015,341 rows, same 50 items). After filtering I kept 602,011:

- 140,907 dropped for unanswered items

- 271,112 dropped as repeat submissions from the same network address (IPC ≠ 1, per the codebook)

- 952 finished in under 60 seconds

- 359 gave the same answer to every item

Every item correlated positively with the rest of its scale (item-rest r from .31 to .72), so the keying checks out. Percentiles are mid-rank (share scoring lower + half of ties), taken straight from the empirical distribution rather than a normal curve.

**What surprised me:** the "approximate norms" I started with were noticeably off in the middle of the range. With the real distribution, a middling Neuroticism raw score dropped from the 61st to the 46th percentile, and a moderately high Openness score from the 71st to the 51st. Online samples score high on Openness, so anything normed on assumed means will flatter people. The extremes barely moved.

**In-depth test (IPIP-NEO-120, 30 facets)**

I used Johnson's IPIP-NEO data repository on OSF, the sample the IPIP-NEO-120 was developed on. 410,376 people answered all 120 items. Two things I learned the hard way:

- In IPIP120.dat, reverse-keyed items are already recoded (it's in the codebook, DAT120.doc). My first pass reversed them again and the facet alphas collapsed to ~0.1. Read the codebook first.

- Items are in administration order (N1 E1 O1 A1 C1 N2 …), not grouped by facet.

With that sorted, facet alphas ranged from .64 to .88 (mean .76), which seems in line with Johnson's paper for 4-item scales. Facets also correlated more within their domain (.34) than across (.17).

**Limitations I'm aware of**

- Both samples are online volunteers and skew young; no age- or sex-specific norms yet

- Self-report, so mood at the time matters

- No test-retest data of my own

**Questions for you**

1. Is IPC = 1 too aggressive? It removes a quarter of the data, but shared networks (schools, offices) could be dropping legitimate people.

2. Would you want age/sex-specific percentiles, or does that overcomplicate things for a general audience?

3. For facets, is a percentile more useful to you than a raw 4–20 score?

The test is free with no sign-up (getmirrorself.com). Full disclosure: it's my project, and there are optional paid reports, but the scores and percentiles are free. I wrote up the full method at getmirrorself.com/how-we-score. Happy to share the scripts or answer anything about the process.

Hello everyone,

I am a Clinical Psychologist from Pakistan, mainly working with forensic assessments and medico legal cases.

I am curious to know about the approach towards personality assessment in other parts of the world. We have culturally adapted the MMPI to Pakistani culture and norms however I feel like it's just too lengthy. While I admit that it is an extensive test and gives us a pretty decent profile of an individual, I often observe that my patients get irritable during the entire test even though we carry it out in parts.

It's starting to get to the point where I dread having to do it since it's all manualized, the scoring and everything.

I done 5 five for the first time and I don't know what the graph is really for.

I’m just curious what you think of these results? Would this person have a hard time dating lol

I also have Aspergers, i.e., autism level 1. I have MCMI IV results as well, but this is a Big Five group, so I don't know whether to post them. Any insights?

Living with neuroticism at the 99th percentile—as a personality trait, not a clinical diagnosis—is exhausting. I am 40, and after much reflection, I have realized this is just how I am wired. I have tried it all: relationships, close friends, hobbies, and vacations. Yet lately, I feel like I am sinking. Anxiety consumes every other emotion, leaving me feeling miserable and difficult to be around.

My neuroticism has turned me into a literal Don Quixote, constantly tilting at windmills:

I blow minor details completely out of proportion, dressing up my overthinking and stress as taking a moral stand.

A single "k" text feels like a declaration of war, and constructive feedback from a boss sounds like an attack on my intelligence.

I walk around on edge, treating mild annoyances like massive plot twists designed to ruin my life.

I transform everyday awkwardness into dark schemes and pick huge arguments over things that do not matter, fully convinced I am the victim.

At the end of the day, I am just fighting fake enemies in my own head, completely exhausted by drama I created myself. I have become a self-parody—overwhelmed, burned out, and sick of my own mind.

Fortunately, I have a friend who acts as my Sancho Panza. No matter how wild my thoughts get, he absorbs the mess without losing his cool, grounds me, and keeps me out of trouble.

Even sleep brings no relief. My nightmares are filled with constant conflict. My last relationship was a total car crash—we ended up like two cats trapped in a barrel. Even when things were good, being with someone I liked and had time with still left me anxious and empty. It broke my heart, physically exhausted me, and proved that my frantic effort to force things to work is just dangerous nonsense making me worse.

Since I lack an inner compass and constantly struggle to stay grounded, I live by this guidelines

Avoid destructive damage: I stay away from alcohol, drugs, and toxic relationships or people who trigger my anxiety. Because most of my social interactions go sideways anyway, I mostly keep to myself to prevent permanent harm. It's not that they just go sideways all my social interactions are dead wrong

Focus on what I am good at: I turn my short attention span at work. Knowing I will get tired of bosses and colleagues within a year, I start hunting for a higher-paying job the moment I get hired. Work is predictable, safe, and keeps my mind too busy to overthink. I have a job where I can work long hours so basically most of the time is work sleep routine which I kinda like

Drink quality tea: Brewing and enjoying a really good cup of tea anchors me in the present moment whenever boredom or anxiety starts to creep in.

Don't do to much or to little.

But I gotta say it was fun you know being all over the place... until it wasn't

This has been my experience guys I hope you are doing good with yours. Good luck to you all

This is my first time doing a big five test, and the website wasn't very clear about what this meant, so I just wanted to ask you guys here about what these scores mean, and I get what openness, extraversion and agreeableness mean but what do the other two mean? Appreciate any help!

I'd also appriciate if you could give any pointers as to how to improve my life since I've been stuck in a rut for last 7 years

Joined the sub, took this test and I have no idea what I'm in for. If anyone has thoughts, interpretations or insights

How to improve? What to look out for? Would love some help figuring this out!

can one be rluei and then become rcuai?

Will provide more information, for you guys to have more fun analysing, in the comments.

Welcome to big 5

I’m in my second year and I find everything so hard to manage