Guide
Automated scoring for self-report measures
Hand scoring a questionnaire takes time and invites small errors. A reversed item gets missed, or a subscale gets summed from the wrong rows. Implicitify scores each measure by the rules its authors published and shows the result the moment the respondent finishes.
Examples from the catalog
- International Personality Item Pool NEO inventory (IPIP-NEO-120). A Big Five personality inventory of 120 items, scored into five domains and thirty facets.
- Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ-16). Sixteen items, half of them reverse-keyed, summed to one empathy score.
- Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). Four empathy subscales, each scored on its own.
- Defense Mechanism Questionnaire (DMQ-30). Thirty statements scored into four defense styles.
- Interpersonal Circumplex (IPC-32). Eight octant scores placed on a circle of dominance and warmth.
What the scoring engine does
Each measure on Implicitify carries its scoring key: which items load on which scale, which items are reverse-keyed and how the scale is combined. The engine applies that key the same way every time. Two people with the same answers always get the same scores.
Where a published comparison group exists for the exact items given, the report shows a z-score and a percentile. Otherwise the report shows the raw score and says plainly that no comparison group applies. Scores are never compared against invented figures.
What the report shows
The report opens with a profile of every scale, drawn on a common axis so the highest and lowest areas stand out. Each scale then gets a short plain-language description of what higher and lower standings mean. The report closes with the limits of self-report. You can save it as a PDF.
Who uses it
Clinicians send measures to clients by secure patient link. Researchers run measures in studies with anonymous participant links and export de-identified data. Individuals take public measures and read their own report. Every audience gets the same scoring.
Scores and reports describe responses. They are not a diagnosis.