I decided to look into it, mainly because I was annoyed with my results. (Hope. I’ve never seen myself as Hope.)



“Looking into it” started with figuring out which questions coincide with which aspects. (Aspects are definitely paired, by the way. This quiz just confirms that beyond a reasonable doubt.) From there, things got ridiculous and I’m just going to put all of this underneath a cut.

The quiz is set up in an incredibly simple manner. To figure out which questions coincide with which aspects, I first selected C, the most neutral response, on every question. That always results in Time, but doesn’t seem to actually count towards your total if you answer other questions. From there, I figured out that each aspect pair has two consecutive questions. The aspect pairs are Breath-Blood, Light-Void, Time-Space, Heart-Mind, Hope-Rage, and Life-Doom.

This alone should give someone more motivated than me some food for thought, seeing how knowing which answers coincide with which aspect offers some decent insight into the aspect. I was more interested in how the quiz was set up, so I continued on in a different direction.

From there, I set about seeing how the quiz reacts to “ties” between aspects. I started with paired aspects, since that seemed easiest. To achieve this, I kept all of the questions set to neutral save for the pair I was analyzing. I then answered the two questions for the aspect pair in ways leaning towards opposite aspects, with the same severity on both. In every case, one aspect would always win over the other in the result. I fiddled with which question was answered which way, and the result was always the same.

From there, I tried ties between non-paired aspects. These, of course, had more biases. Honestly, the list of biases is so long that I’m not even going to type it out. Have a spreadsheet instead.

As you can probably see, Time is the most common aspect, as it has bias over Space and is also the aspect given when all answers are neutral. Time and Space hold bias over all other aspect pairs, which is likely because they’re the cardinal aspects. Heart and Mind are also prominent, only losing in a tie with the cardinal aspects. Hope and Rage follow close behind, with Light and Void behind them. Breath and Blood are fairly rare, and Life and Doom are the rarest aspects. Doom is the overall rarest, as it does not win in any tie. Interestingly enough, a tie between Heart and Light results in Time, while a tie between Mind and Void results in Space.

I assume that things only get more complicated, seeing how three-way ties exist. However, recording the results of all of those ties would be ridiculously time-consuming and honestly kind of dumb. More dumb than this was.

I’m still not entirely sure why I did this, but this could explain some of the intense dissatisfaction people are having with their results. I’m hoping to do a poll at some point to see if my predictions about the commonness of each result are correct.

Here is the document I put the results for each answer in. Here is the spreadsheet, if you want to get a closer look at it.