Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Digital Ethics & Citizenship test measure?
Three areas, scored separately. Data, Privacy & Misuse is about information that belongs to people — what gets collected, who else ends up holding it, and how long it is kept. Misinformation & AI Ethics is about claims you cannot check at a glance, generated images and video, and honesty when an AI tool is involved. Digital Citizenship & Social Media Safety is about the people on the other side of the screen. Each area gets eight of the twenty-four situations.
Why do some questions ask what is wrong instead of what I would do?
Because those are two different skills, and asking only the second one gives away the first. A question that says an app "only needs your photos but is asking for your contacts" has already named the problem inside the question. Ten of the twenty-four situations therefore state the facts with nothing flagged and ask what the real problem is, with four candidate problems to pick between — three of them genuine issues that are simply the wrong issue here.
How are the bands set?
Against the content, not against other people. There is no norming sample and no percentile anywhere in the result. Clicking at random on a four-option test lands around 25%, so the lowest band deliberately covers everything up to 44%: a score you could get without reading the questions must not come back reading as average.
Does a low score mean someone is unsafe online?
No, and the result says so. A low score means specific situations were read differently from the key, and it names which ones. That is a starting point for a lesson or a conversation. It is not a judgement about a person, and it cannot see anything that happens outside the twenty-four scenarios.
Who is it written for, and how long does it take?
It is written at a middle-school reading level, for roughly grades 6 to 8, and the scenarios are the ones that actually come up at that age — an app asking for more than it needs, a video nobody credible seems to be reporting, a group chat that has turned on one person. Older readers can take it, and the situations still hold; the vocabulary is simply pitched lower than an adult test would be. It is 24 questions and takes about 5 minutes. It is free, and no account is needed to see the result.