Typeology Methodology and Content Standards

This page explains how Typeology's 32-question preference questionnaire produces a four-letter result, which data enters the site's statistics, and what the result cannot establish. Readers should not have to trust an invisible algorithm: the rules, limits, and correction path are public.

What this questionnaire is

Typeology organizes everyday responses across four preference pairs: E/I, S/N, T/F, and J/P. Each pair has 8 questions, for 32 total. The prompts cover familiar situations such as recovering energy, taking in information, making decisions, and structuring daily life. Each question offers two understandable choices; neither is the morally better answer.

This is an independently produced self-exploration questionnaire. It is not the official MBTI® assessment published by The Myers-Briggs Company, and it does not replace the verification feedback of a qualified practitioner. If you need the official instrument or a certified practitioner, start with Myers & Briggs Foundation's official page: https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/take-the-mbti-Instrument/

Scoring rules

• Every question belongs to exactly one of EI, SN, TF, or JP. An answer never changes several axes at once.
• An answer favoring the first letter adds 1 to that axis; an answer favoring the second letter subtracts 1.
• After 8 questions on an axis, a positive score selects E, S, T, or J; a negative score selects I, N, F, or P.
• A score of exactly 0 uses the fixed tie result I, N, F, or P. This is a reproducibility rule, not a claim that those preferences are better.
• One letter from each axis is joined in EI, SN, TF, JP order, producing a code such as INTJ.

The same answers always return the same result. Scoring is implemented as a pure function. Automated tests cover ordinary mixed answers, positive and negative boundaries on all four axes, all answers in one direction, empty input, and every tie. Before a completed response is stored, the server validates the selected options and calculates the result again instead of trusting a type code sent by the browser.

How to interpret a result

The four letters describe preferences, not measured ability. People use both ends of every pair; one side may simply feel more natural in some contexts. Roles, culture, training, pressure, health, mood, and life stage can affect answers. A different result on a retake does not prove that the earlier result was fraudulent or that the later one is final.

A type alone cannot establish intelligence, job performance, suitability for a career, the success of a relationship, or mental-health status. Typeology does not support using this questionnaire for hiring, promotion, medical decisions, or assigning labels to another person. The official MBTI® Code of Ethics likewise says to describe tendencies rather than absolutes, avoid overgeneralization, and not use results to screen job applicants: https://www.myersbriggs.org/using-type-as-a-professional/mbti-code-of-ethics/home.htm

How questions and type content are maintained

Questions describe recognizable behavior and do not require prior knowledge of personality theory. The four language editions are stored separately rather than machine-translated in the interface. Type articles use language such as “may,” “tends to,” and “in some situations.” They cover strengths, blind spots, relationship needs, and practical adjustments without turning personality into destiny.

Questions, scoring code, page content, and revision dates are version-controlled. A content edit does not silently rewrite completed historical responses. If the number of questions, weights, or tie rules change in the future, this page will be updated first and the old and new rules will be distinguished.

How on-site statistics are produced

After completion, Typeology records the selected options, result code, language, and time. Public pages read only aggregate counts by type; raw responses are not exposed through the public data endpoint. To avoid dressing up tiny samples as findings, percentages and rarity ranks appear only after 30 completed results in the same language.

These statistics describe only people who chose to complete this questionnaire on Typeology. They are a self-selected convenience sample, not a random sample, and do not represent the population of Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Spain, or any other place. Shares change as new responses arrive. Crossing 30 responses makes the display less misleading; it does not turn the data into a population study.

Operations, business model, and corrections

The free questionnaire requires no registration, and the answering screen carries no ads. Full type articles may load Google AdSense. Advertising does not change questions, scores, results, or editorial conclusions. The paid in-depth report is optional and does not change the free type result.

Typeology is operated by Archie Design App LLC. If you find an ambiguous prompt, translation error, unsupported generalization, or scoring problem, email archie@archie.tw with the page URL, language, and a description. We will check the reproducible conditions and correct verified errors rather than asking readers to accept an undisclosed rationale.

Trademarks and independence

Typeology is not affiliated with, licensed by, or partnered with Myers & Briggs Foundation, The Myers-Briggs Company, or 16Personalities. MBTI, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Myers-Briggs are trademarks or registered trademarks of Myers & Briggs Foundation, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Trademark information: https://www.themyersbriggs.com/en-US/Support/Trademarks