Three a week
Patterns I'm seeing
Every other assessment asks you about you. This one is the reverse: Crystal makes three claims about you each week and you say, one at a time, whether each is right. The thing being assessed is Crystal.
What it asks
3 things Crystal noticed about you this week, for you to say whether each is right.
- Three observations drawn from what you have already answered
- Whether each one is accurate, in your judgement
- Nothing else, so it stays short enough to do weekly
An assessment is more useful when it can be wrong
A personality result that cannot be contradicted is a horoscope. The test of whether a system understands you is whether it will commit to a specific claim and let you mark it wrong.
This is also the fastest way for a profile to get accurate. A question you answer tells Crystal what you say about yourself; an observation you reject tells it where its read of you is off, which is information the questions cannot produce.
Confirmed observations go into your profile. Rejected ones change what comes next. Either way the week has improved the picture, which is not true of a week spent answering nothing.
How Crystal asks it
Inside the product.
- Three a week, done when they are answered, with last week’s leftovers retired rather than stacked up.
- It used to be a backlog that arrived whenever Crystal had something, and it reached forty-one waiting at once. Three a week is the fix.
- Our own research found that the people who know you rate your results higher than you do, which is the pattern this assessment is designed to catch in the other direction.