Methodology

What the instrument is

TooReal scores 24 personality scales. The questions are the public-domain IPIP-HEXACO facet scales, published by the International Personality Item Pool to measure the HEXACO model of personality.

There are 24 scales, four in each of six domains. A standard sitting administers four items per scale; an extended sitting administers eight.

How the 24 scales map onto six axes

Each axis is exactly one HEXACO domain: four scales and sixteen items in a standard sitting. The axis score is the mean of its four scale scores; each scale is rescaled to run from 0 to 100.

HEXACO includes Honesty-Humility, a sixth factor that five-factor instruments do not measure. That is why the profile has six axes rather than five.

Every scale, its length, and published reliability

IPIP publishes reliability figures for its ten-item parent scales. Our four- and eight-item versions are shorter, so treat those figures as a ceiling for this instrument rather than as a measured value from our own sample.

The ± band on your scores

The confidence band describes how settled a score is. It is not a percentile, a ranking, or a judgement about the person answering.

What this is for, and what it must not be used for

This is a structured reflection tool. It must not be used to make medical, employment, admissions, legal, financial, or other high-stakes decisions.

Two lengths: 96 and 192

The standard sitting uses four statements per dimension. The extended sitting uses eight, narrowing the confidence band while keeping the same model and scoring.

Sources

International Personality Item Pool and the published HEXACO literature. The source items, keys, reliability caveats, and evidence limits are stated here so every number has a traceable origin.