Arabic Personality Compass
North, South, East or West — the direction you chose most often across 36 everyday situations. The stronger of the two directions on the crossing axis, and what that combination looks like day to day. All four directions as percentages that add up to 100, so you can see how close the runner-up really was.
What You'll Discover
🧭Your leading direction
North, South, East or West — the direction you chose most often across 36 everyday situations
🔀The blend that shades it
The stronger of the two directions on the crossing axis, and what that combination looks like day to day
📊Your full four-way split
All four directions as percentages that add up to 100, so you can see how close the runner-up really was
Sample Result
🔬 Research & Sources
Original 36-item forced-choice questionnaire written for JobCannon; the North/South/East/West framing originates with Turner & Greco (1998), whose content is not reproduced here.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is the Personality Compass scored?
It is a forced-choice (ipsative) test. Each of the 36 scenarios gives you four options — one for each direction — and you pick the one closest to what you actually do. There is no agree/disagree scale and no way to endorse two directions at once, so the four directions compete for the same 36 choices. Your result is the direction you chose most often, plus the runner-up on the crossing axis. The option order rotates on a Latin square, which puts each direction in each of the four screen positions exactly nine times, so always clicking the first button returns a flat, meaningless split rather than a personality.
Why do my four percentages always add up to 100?
Because every choice you make gives one direction a point and gives the other three nothing. Adding a point to North necessarily means not adding one to South, East or West. That makes the result a ranking inside one person, not a measurement you can compare across people: a 40% North says North beat your own other three directions, not that you have more drive than someone else who scored 35%.
What are the twelve possible results?
Four pure directions — The Driver (North), The Anchor (South), The Architect (East) and The Explorer (West) — and eight blends where a second direction colours the first. The blends are derived from your runner-up on the crossing axis, so a North result is blended with East or West, a South result with East or West, and so on. Each of the twelve is written out in terms of temperament, relationships, the work that suits it and how that person tends to communicate.
How is this different from MBTI, DISC or the Big Five?
The Big Five scores five traits independently, so you can be high on two at once; this test cannot do that, because its four directions share a fixed budget of 36 choices. MBTI sorts you into one of sixteen types from four either/or splits. DISC is the closest relative — it is also a four-quadrant workplace model — but it uses its own vocabulary and its own items. The Compass is deliberately the plainest of the four: four everyday directions, one dominant, one blend.
Is the Personality Compass scientifically validated?
No, and we do not claim it is. There is no reliability or validity study of these 36 items, because they were written for this page. The four-direction idea belongs to a family of quadrant models with a long history — Marston's DISC work in the 1920s, Jung's psychological types before it — but the general shape of a framework being old is not evidence that this particular questionnaire measures anything. Treat the result as a description you can agree or disagree with, not a finding.
What if two of my directions come out almost equal?
That is common and it is the most informative part of the result. A near-tie between the top two means the blend matters more than the label — you genuinely run both, and which one shows up depends on the room you are in. It is also the case where a retake is most likely to swap them, so treat a close pair as a pair rather than reading only the winner.
Can I share my result with my team or use it at work?
Sharing it is fine and it is what the result page is written for: it gives you plain words for how you prefer to work and where you tend to grate on people. What it must not be used for is selection. Ipsative scores rank directions inside one person, so they cannot rank two candidates against each other, and nothing here measures ability or predicts job performance.