Four working habits that cost more when a team is distributed: Async Handover (writing that survives your absence), Self-Visibility (making your own state legible unasked), Escalation Speed (turning stuck into a resolved question fast), and Timezone Coordination (planning around other people’s clocks). Each habit is on offer in exactly twelve of the thirty pairs, so each is scored out of twelve.

Because almost everyone agrees with a good habit when asked directly, which leaves nothing to read. In a pair, both statements describe something reasonable, so choosing one means giving up the other. That does not make the test impossible to fake — nothing self-report is — but it makes faking require a theory of which answer is rewarded, and the pairs are written so that theory is hard to form.

They ask whether you have personally used eight specific ways of working. Five are real and three are invented names for practices that do not exist. Claiming the invented ones is a well-documented sign that a questionnaire is being answered generously. If two or three of the invented practices are claimed, the result carries a note suggesting the answers be read as provisional. That note never changes any of the four habit scores.

No, and deliberately so. Most of the pairs trade one habit against another, so the four numbers are not independent, and adding them would produce a total that mostly reflects how the pairs were built rather than the person answering. You get four bands and the count behind each one.