HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How Am I an Introvert, Extrovert, or Ambivert? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
This test looks at extraversion, one of the Big Five personality traits, which is about where you get energy and how you like to be with people (McCrae and Costa, 1987). Researchers find that extraversion has more than one part (DeYoung and others, 2007), so this test looks at four everyday parts: where you get energy, group size, thinking out loud or first, and how much buzz you like. Introverts and extroverts may differ in how much stimulation feels right (Eysenck, 1967), people act more or less outgoing depending on the situation (Fleeson, 2001), and people in the middle, sometimes called ambiverts, may have some advantages (Grant, 2013).
The test has 40 sentences, ten for each part. Half lean toward the extrovert end and half toward the introvert end, so you cannot get a high score just by agreeing with everything. Each answer gives 0 to 4 points. Each part has its own score from 0 to 100, read as Low (introvert end), Medium, or High (extrovert end). The parts are not added up.
PersonalitySite.com wrote all of these questions and descriptions. They are not copied from any other test.
What it cannot tell you
This test is for learning about yourself. It is not a diagnosis. It cannot tell you if you have social anxiety or any other condition, and being an introvert is not a disorder. Do not use it to hire, fire, or judge people.
Levels show how you answered. They do not compare you with other people. How outgoing you are can change with the setting and the people. This test overlaps the extraversion part of our Big Five test. This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.