How Our Quizzes Work

What these are not

None of our quizzes is a validated psychometric instrument. They do not reproduce, adapt or approximate any clinical screening tool, and a result is not a diagnosis of anything — not attachment disorder, not codependency, not depression, not a personality disorder. No score here belongs in a medical record or a conversation about medication.

They also cannot tell you what another person did, thought or intended. A quiz only ever has your answers. Where a quiz asks about a partner, the result describes the situation you are living in and what you have noticed — never a verdict on them.

If a result reads like it is describing you, that is worth something: it means the pattern was recognizable enough to write down. That is the whole claim, and it is a smaller claim than a number out of a hundred implies.

How a result is produced

Every quiz is a fixed set of questions, written before anyone takes it, with fixed answer options. There is no branching on demographics, no adaptive question selection, and no model deciding what to ask you next. Across all 25 quizzes that is 306 questions leading to 110 written results.

Scoring takes one of two shapes, and which one a quiz uses is a property of the question, not a style choice:

An intensity ladder. Used when the outcomes are degrees of the same thing — how settled a doubt has become, how far a pattern has gone. Each option carries points, the points add up, and the total falls into one of four or five bands. The bands are computed to cover every attainable total exactly once, with no gap and no overlap, so there is no score that lands nowhere.
Types, not degrees. Used when the outcomes are different kinds of situation that cannot be ranked — missing an ex versus missing the routine, being guarded versus aiming at people who cannot reciprocate. Here each option points at an outcome and the result is the one you chose most often. Nothing is added up, because there is no axis to add along.

A handful of quizzes mark their heaviest result differently, and that changes what the page offers you: instead of the app, it points you toward a therapist. That is deliberate. There are results where recommending our own product would be the wrong thing to do.

What happens to your answers

The scoring runs in your browser. Working out which result you get happens on your device. There is no request that sends us your answers to be scored, and the result page is just another page on the site.
Progress is kept locally so you can close the tab and come back, and it is cleared as soon as you reach a result.
Our analytics can still see what you clicked. Like most sites we use a product-analytics tool, and it records clicks along with the text of the button — which on a quiz is the answer you chose. On quiz pages it also records a replay of the page as you use it. We use this to find where people get stuck and where the wording is confusing. It is not attached to your name or your email, and we do not go looking at individuals, but we are not going to tell you it does not exist.
No account, no email. The result appears when you answer the last question. If a page offers to email you a copy, that is optional and the result is already on screen either way.

If that is more than you want to share, an ad blocker or your browser’s Do Not Track setting stops most of it, and the quiz works exactly the same with the analytics blocked. Nothing on this site requires it.

One thing to know: result pages are ordinary public URLs. Landing on /quiz/…/… does not mean anyone took a quiz — the page is the same for everyone who opens that address.

How they get written

Questions are written to ask about behavior you can actually observe — what happened, how often, what you did next — rather than to ask you to rate yourself on an abstraction. “Have the two of you ever said out loud what this is?” is answerable. “How secure do you feel, one to ten?” mostly measures your mood today.

Result copy is written to be a mirror rather than a verdict: it describes what you told us and what that pattern usually means, and then says what you could do about it. 25 of the 25 quizzes also carry a short FAQ answering what people ask before they start.

Where a topic can touch on someone being afraid of a partner, the result carries crisis resources directly, not behind a link. That is true regardless of what the score said, because a score is not how someone finds out they are in danger.

Everything here follows the same standards as the rest of the site. See our editorial policy for how content is created, reviewed and corrected, and about Lovon for who is behind it.

If something here is wrong

Quizzes get corrected the same way articles do. If a question is confusing, a result misreads a situation, or a resource is out of date, tell us and we will fix it — the corrections process is in the editorial policy.

Where to start

All 25 are listed on the quiz page, free, with no sign-up.