So, in an effort to deepen my understanding of myself and others, I took a look at some of those online tests. I had some issues with all of them: 1. They asked redundant questions. Sometimes, the answer to one question would make asking a different question moot. 2. They all only did one thing or mixed two things together poorly (i.e. an asexuality test that asks questions about one's romantic interests). 3. They weren't open source.
I made this test in an attempt to remedy those issues as best I could. I am fully aware that this is a very rough test and obviously doesn't include all of the beautiful and vast labels. I hope I still did a fairly good job.
Some of the design decisions include:
- Testing one's gender identity first to be used later on in the romantic and sexual orientation parts of the test.
- Measuring romantic and sexual orientation in four directions (gyno, andro, ace/aro, bi).
- I also added pan to differentiate between being attracted to multiple genders and being attracted regardless of gender. I thought that was an important distinction to make.
- I added an ace/aro-spec test that includes ace, gray-ace and aceflux (aro, gray-romantic and aroflux for romantic orientations). Being aroace myself, I wanted to test this so I wouldn't ask aro/ace people to whom they're romantically/sexually attracted to.
I did a practice round in my fairly diverse circle of friends and they all seemed to think it was pretty accurate. This gave me the confidence to share this with you all. Again, I am fully aware that there will no doubt be people for whom this test will not be accurate and I'm sorry if I didn't include your label in this test. The way it's built makes it hard to add microlabels. If you have any suggestions or would like to share if the test was accurate (with or without disclosing your labels), feel free to do so. Thank you for your time.
