Methodology
This page lays out everything behind our quizzes: which constructs each one borrows, where the items come from, how scoring works, and what the limitations are. Honesty is this site’s most important feature.
Three hard rules
- Every item is 100% original. We borrow only non-copyrightable academic frameworks/constructs, never the items of published scales; each quiz page names its conceptual source and states it is not the official X test.
- A quiz is a mirror, not a verdict. Result pages say “you land at …,” never “you are …”; no test can define you.
- No gender-dysphoria screening of any kind. Gender dysphoria/incongruence is a clinical determination only a professional can make in person (ICD-11/DSM-5-TR); we offer the public-domain Genderbread sliders instead.
Honesty statement: these quizzes are not validated instruments
Our items are written originally by this project and go through a community-review process (ongoing), but they have not undergone psychometric reliability/validity testing — which is true of nearly every online quiz; most just don’t tell you. Treat results as a starting point for sorting out your feelings, never as a conclusion.
How scoring works
All scoring is a pure function with public logic: agreement items count 1–5 (reversed items flip to 6−x), averaged per dimension and normalized; spectrum positions derive from the ratio of two axes; the Klein grid is shown cell by cell. Scoring code runs only in your browser — an architectural fact, not a policy promise, and you can verify it on the data-flow demo page.
Conceptual sources of the eight quizzes
Orientation Spectrum
The Kinsey 0–6 continuum concept + Sell’s attraction/behavior/emotion components
The Kinsey Institute states there is no “official Kinsey test”; ours is an original implementation inspired by the concept, yielding a 0–6+X position. The 1948-era single-axis limitation is disclosed on the result page.
Two-Axis Attraction
Storms’ (1980) two-dimensional model
Same- and other-gender attraction measured as independent axes; all items are original and attraction-worded, avoiding the original scale’s arousal-based items.
Klein Grid
The 7-dimension × 3-timeframe framework of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
The framework itself is not copyrightable; the original wording belongs to the American Institute of Bisexuality — our implementation uses entirely original wording.
Gender Dimensions Explorer
Genderbread Person v4 (released to the public domain by its author)
Not a test: self-placed sliders, no scoring, never a label verdict. It is our deliberate alternative to any gender-dysphoria screener — a “dysphoria score” on a consumer site reads like a diagnosis.
Identity Journey
Constructs from the Cass (1979) six-stage model
Results are shown as resonance, not a stage verdict; the model’s linearity assumption and vintage are disclosed, alongside D’Augelli’s lifespan view.
Outness Spectrum
The life-domain construct of the Outness Inventory (Mohr & Fassinger, 2000)
An original reconstruction, not the scale’s items; results stress that no level of outness is right or wrong, and selective outness is the norm.
Ally Attitudes
The Riddle attitude continuum (eight levels)
Key insight: tolerance and acceptance still sit in the negative half of the continuum. Original scenario-based items.
Knowledge Quiz
Public facts (terminology, history, law, health science)
Facts are not copyrightable; each question carries an explanation with dates/sources.
How the support interstitial triggers
One quiz currently (“Identity Journey”) contains a few items flagged as distress signals (e.g., about shame or panic). If any flagged item scores 4 or higher on the 5-point scale, a gentle interstitial appears before your result with a link to local helplines. It can always be skipped and never blocks your result.
Acknowledgments and citations
We gratefully acknowledge the intellectual contributions of: Alfred Kinsey et al. (1948); Michael Storms (1980); Fritz Klein (1978/1985 — framework courtesy to the American Institute of Bisexuality); Vivienne Cass (1979); Jonathan Mohr & Ruth Fassinger (2000 — construct use notified by letter); Dorothy Riddle (c. 1973–74); Sam Killermann (Genderbread v4, public domain). This site is affiliated with none of these researchers or organizations.