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What kind of collector are you?

Twenty-five items from published, public-domain scales — five about what you actually did this year, twenty about how you work. You get two numbers, the reliability of each, and a plain-language read. Everything runs in your browser.

Part 1 — what you did

In the past year, how often did you do each of these?

  1. 1Worked on my collection.
  2. 2Bought something for my collection.
  3. 3Traded something in my collection.
  4. 4Read a book about the things that I collect.
  5. 5Bought a book about the things that I collect.

Part 2 — how you work

How accurately does each statement describe you?

  1. 6Like order.
  2. 7Avoid mistakes.
  3. 8Like to tidy up.
  4. 9Choose my words with care.
  5. 10Want everything to be "just right."
  6. 11Stick to my chosen path.
  7. 12Love order and regularity.
  8. 13Jump into things without thinking.
  9. 14Do things according to a plan.
  10. 15Make rash decisions.
  11. 16Often forget to put things back in their proper place.
  12. 17Like to act on a whim.
  13. 18Leave a mess in my room.
  14. 19Rush into things.
  15. 20Leave my belongings around.
  16. 21Do crazy things.
  17. 22Am not bothered by messy people.
  18. 23Act without thinking.
  19. 24Am not bothered by disorder.
  20. 25Often make last-minute plans.

Part 2 uses the scales’ original 1–5 wording. Part 1’s frequency anchors are ours: the original ORAIS anchors are not public, and inventing a set and calling it theirs would be borrowing reliability we did not earn.

Your reading

0 / 25 answered

Answer every item to get a reading — a partly-answered scale has no score, and showing one anyway would be making it up.

Collecting activity— / 5
α 0.84 · ORAIS · Collecting (IPIP, 5 items)
How systematic you are— / 5
α 0.82 · NEO C2 · Orderliness (IPIP, 10 items)
How much you look before you buy— / 5
α 0.76 · NEO C6 · Cautiousness (IPIP, 10 items)

α is the internal consistency the scale’s authors reported. Higher means the items in that scale hang together. It is not a measure of how right the result is about you.

No percentiles here. Saying “you scored higher than 73% of people” needs a norming sample we do not have — so we do not say it.

Where the items come from

All twenty-five items are IPIP originals, taken word-for-word from the official scoring keys and checked against the item counts their authors report. IPIP states its items are intentionally not copyrighted and free for research or commercial use. Nothing you type is uploaded — the scoring runs entirely in your browser.

Collecting: ORAIS “Collecting” (5 items, α .84). Orderliness: NEO C2 (10 items, α .82). Cautiousness: NEO C6 (10 items, α .76). Items via ipip.ori.org.

Questions

Is “curator” a real personality type?
No. The two axes are real, published scales with reported reliabilities. The four names are our way of saying what a pair of numbers means. Treat the numbers as the result and the name as the caption.
Why does part 1 ask about the past year instead of how I feel?
Because it is a behaviour scale, not a self-description one. What you actually did is a different measurement from how you see yourself, and averaging the two together would blur both.
Why is my result blank?
A scale only gets a score when every one of its items is answered. A partial average looks like a score but is not one, so we show a dash instead.
Do you keep my answers?
No. There is no account, no upload, and no request to the server while you answer. Reload the page and it is gone.

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