Analytical

Whether you lean on gut feeling or on step-by-step reasoning and evidence.

Measured by the Thinking Style test. Scores run from 0 to 100.

Low scores (under 40): Intuitive

An answer often arrives before you can explain it, because you trust your sense of things. That makes you quick and perceptive, though your hunches can be hard to defend or check.

Balanced scores (40 to 60)

You mix reasoning and instinct, using logic to test what your gut suggests and the reverse.

High scores (over 60): Analytical

Choices that a quick instinct would have handled well can get overthought when you like to break a problem into parts, weigh evidence and check the logic. The upside is conclusions that hold up.

Related traits

• Curiosity
  How much you follow your interest across topics versus staying on what is useful.
• Abstraction
  Whether you think in examples and facts or in patterns and general ideas.
• Reflection
  Whether you think out loud in the moment or mull things over first.

Sources and method

This lens places you on four spectrums of thinking, and each end has its own strengths. It measures how you say you usually think, not how well you think, and it says nothing about intelligence. Results are self-report and rough, and your style can change with the topic, your mood and the stakes. Read it as a description of your defaults, not a label.

Neither end of a dimension is better. Each comes with strengths and costs. For self-reflection and entertainment only.