Personality tests: Multiple personality results (scoring)

Our multiple personality option is pretty cool – you can show each user how they scored across all of your various results.

However – we are often asked: “Hey, the total scores don’t add up to 100%. Why not?”

For personality tests, it’s a little tricky – we calculate the total points possible for the particular options chosen.

There is often no 100% sum of the results – rounding often throws things off slightly.

Multiple personality results scoring

Let’s take a look at a personality test example – using multiple personality results.

Your quiz “Are you a cat or dog person?” has two personalities A (‘Cats’) and B (‘Dogs’).

Your personality test questions are scored as follows:

Question 1: 

• Answer #1 scores 10pts for Personality A / 5pts for B
• Answer #2 scores 10pts for Personality B / 5pts for A

Question 2:

• #1 scores 20pts for Pers. A / 10pts for B
• #2 get 20pts for for Pers. B / 10pts for A

Question 3:

• #1 scores 20pts for Pers. A / 10pts for B
• #2 get 20pts for for Pers. B / 10pts for A

Each personality has a maximum of 16 possible points.

Imagine your user answers:

• Q1: option 2
• Q2: option 2
• Q3: option 2

Personality A (meow!) would get 10pts – and personality B would get 40 (woof!)

However, instead of Dog=80%, Cat=20%, the breakdown is a little tricker:

So your multiple personality results will be:

• Personality A ‘Cat’ – 33% 25 out of 75 total points (for the options selected)
• Personality B ‘Dog’ – 67% 50 out of 75 (for the options selected)

Personality test – live examples

If you want to see some personality tests in action – check out these live examples from our Riddle community:

• Choice Hotels – “Which U.S. City Should You Travel to Next?”
• BBC Sports – “What’s your Game of Thrones-inspired sport?”

Can we help with any questions?

Any questions about creating your own personality test, or using this extended personality test results feature?

Just ask away on support chat. We’re not bots – but we’re super fast to respond to every question.

(Our current average time to respond? Under two minutes… how’s that for fast?) 🙂