Reading your percentiles: a 4-minute guide

What "84th percentile Openness" really means, and why your rank matters more than your raw score.

A raw score of 70 means nothing by itself. Seventy compared to whom? Percentiles fix that: 84th percentile Openness means you're more open than 84 of every 100 people.

Ranks beat raw numbers

Human traits bunch up in the middle. Most people are near average on most things — which makes your distance from average the genuinely informative number.

The extremes are your signature

Anything past the 80th or under the 20th percentile is a defining feature. Those are the scores worth designing your work, relationships and routines around. ## What to do with this

Treat your result as a well-researched hypothesis about yourself — one worth testing against your real life. The people who get the most from these tools hold their type loosely and their self-awareness tightly.