[Tests] - How do YOU do them?

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I just went to go and complete this test: Link

The first question was 'I often make resolutions, but find it hard to stick to them' with the four standard options of agree, disagree and strongly agree and disagree.

How the hell are you suppose to answer something like that properly? I simply cannot get over it and it makes me, in my mind automatically invalidate the results that I'm going to get because it is so far from being precisely accurate. This is how my brain starts to break down:

There are two options for disagreeing and two for agreeing, but WHAT am I disagreeing or agreeing to? In terms of that question, what if I rarely, or don't make resolutions? What if I rarely make resolutions, but always stick to them? What TYPE of resolution is it.. as in what for? Am I currently in a good state of mind? The question thus doesn't truly apply, as the statement 'I often make resolutions' is instantly invalidated as it is so incredibly vague and thus literally impossible to answer without feeling as if I have lied. The 'but' part of the question also irritates me, as it implies that the first part is true. It's a two part question with one answer.

PLEASE HELP ME, the test is about to eviscerate me!



EDIT - A better example: 'I can tell if someone is masking their true emotion.'

WHAT? I mean.. WHAT? Someone? Some people are better at masking their emotions than others. I might be able to tell if my sister and few others are masking their emotions, but no one else as I have known her far longer and haven't seen anyone else in quite some time. I might be able to tell for obvious emotions, but not a vast amount. Also, how am I suppose to know if I have been right or not as I have rarely spoken to anyone if I have suspected that they were hiding their emotions. There's also no real life context. Nothing. How the hell am I suppose to answer this with the four options given? To me, that's similar to asking me to give a lecture on how to play soccer to a group of people, WITHOUT telling me the age, knowledge and competition status of the people that were in that group. It would require an absolute guess in other words. It is barely even a half truth.

Just thought I should add, this is why I find it impossible to truthfully do the AQ test, the R-Dos quiz and any personality test. I could do, for example the AQ test once and score 28, then do it again and score 35 simply because I interpret the question a different way. My 'personality type' has changed a ludicrous amount of times.

I have so many problems with test because most are written by NT's and they think so different and I can't figure out what most are asking

I go with the substance over form approach, yeah that means don't think to hard about what it is trying to ask you (please don't roll your eyes at me).
Read the question once and go with the gut that's my motto for these deliberately ambiguous questionnaires.

Online tests?

They arent job applications, or school entrance exams. Theyre for fun. And online tests are concocted by amateurs ( not REAL tests made by real specialists) anyway.

So (a) dont take them so damned seriously, and (b) to the extent you do take them seriously- pick the answer that comes closest to you ( even if the 'closest' is closer in the sense that north antarctica is closer to your house than is south antarctica). Niether may be close but just pick something.

I totally relate. I find the many of the questionnaires to be ambiguous.

During my diagnosis, the Psychologist gave me a number of questionnaires to complete. Some of the questions included:

- “People say that I am…”. Um. Which people? My wife? My work colleagues? My neighbor? The mailman?

- “Am I imaginative”? Um. Compared to whom/what? How do I know how imaginative others are? What if the people I know are all extraordinarily imaginative? Compared to them, I might not be imaginative at all. Or visa versa.

The Psychologist suggested that I “not focus on the details and to think ‘globally’”. I must have had a blank stare, as the Psychologist then added, “that might be difficult for you”. Then, the Psychologist suggested that I focus on the first answer that comes to mind.

I took a slightly alternative strategy. I filled out the questionnaire. And, then I asked my wife to complete the same one (not knowing how I answered). I compared the results. For the ones that were different, I asked my wife to explain her interpretation of the question. In some cases, I changed my results. In others, I did not.

They are not asking for specific situations but overall because if you are an Aspie while in specific situations you can read peoples intentions most of the time you might not.

Unless they state otherwise, all of these sorts of questions are asking about general circumstances. If you need a more specific description of general circumstances, try to think in terms of the following (doesn't have to be this way exactly; you can change the percentages to what you think is best):


Statements that ask about time/how often:
Strongly disagree, statement is true 0% - 25% of the time
Disagree, true 25% - 50% of the time
Agree, true 50% - 75% of the time
Strongly agree, true 75% - 100% of the time

Statements that ask about a quantity/how much:
Strongly disagree, you like 0% - 25% of the type of item (for example, you only like one or two fruits)
Disagree, true 25% - 50% of the type of item
Agree, true 50% - 75% of the type of item
Strongly agree, true 75% - 100% of the type of item

Statements that ask whether or not you like something:
Strongly disagree, hate it
Disagree, simply dislike it
Agree, like it
Strongly agree, love it


Statements that ask if you are a certain way/have a certain characteristic:
Strongly disagree, you are the exact opposite way
Disagree, you are not that way
Agree, you are that way
Strongly agree, statement describes you almost exactly/is so accurate it's creepy

What I do is a sort of combination of these. Like in your fruit example, say I hardly like any fruit at all (0% - 25%), so I'd be thinking strongly disagree. But let's say, those few fruits I do like, I like them enough to eat them a moderate amount (50%-75% of the time). So I might split the difference and choose disagree.

These tests of course are always prone to error due to miscommunication between the test author and the test-takers.