Sunday, September 27, 2015

TPI result and reflection

So first, here is my result.
As explained in the "Five perspectives" page, the five perspectives are NOT mutually exclusive perspectives.

My mean score is 37.2 with a standard deviation of 2.79. It is clear that for the two "dominant" perspectives (apprenticeship and nurturing), the sub-scores of B (beliefs), I (intentions), and A (actions) are roughly at the same level. The sub-scores deviate a lot in other perspectives. I really cannot comment on the result as there is no supporting document about the inner calculation. I am really surprised about my low transmission and development scores, but having no surprise about the low social reform score. The two apprenticeship and nurturing score are roughly the same to my expectation.

Although my B and I sub-score vary among all perspectives, my A sub-score are consistent at the level of 13 (14 in social reform). One interesting intepretation is: according to the result, I dob't believe in social reform, and I do not intend to accomplish any social inform activity, but I am really doing some social reform actions. I do not know if I have intepreted the result correctly, but it will be really helpful if the website can provide some sample intepretations.

Here is another test with all selections being "SA" (strongly agree) or equivalent options.

Notice that the test contains 15*3=45 questions. The test organizers assign 3 different weights to each question under different perspectives. It is possible that some questions have a negative weight in a perspective (thus 15 may not be the highest score for the sub-scores).


1 comment:

  1. Interesting to experiment with the test itself to deconstruct its assumptions. I like that experimental, mathematical way of approaching this!

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