Method
Every result is arithmetic on your own answers, done in your browser. It is a reflection to think with. It is not a test, a diagnosis or a measurement of anything clinical.
Before the details
The tools turn statements you rate from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree) into a short reading. The numbers describe how you answered today, in the words of the book’s framework. They do not describe a type of person, they are not compared with a norm, and they have not been validated as a psychological measure. Treat a result as a prompt for a conversation with yourself, or with a partner or a professional if you want one.
Nothing is calculated on a server. The arithmetic below runs in the page you have open. If you choose to contribute to the anonymous research tally, the page sends only rounded counters (see the research page), never your answers.
Tool 1
Statements belong to four channels: visual, emotional, tactile and intellectual. Some statements are worded the other way round; for those the rating is flipped (a 2 counts as a 6). Each channel’s points are added up, and each channel’s share of the grand total becomes its percentage. Percentages are rounded to whole numbers and adjusted by a point or two on the largest channel so they always add up to 100.
The result is a gradient of emphasis. A high channel means it carried more of your answers than the others, not that the others are absent. A missing answer counts as the neutral 4.
On the thirteen statements that name a touch, a look or the connection between two people, you can tick an optional box: what matters to you there is what it means, not the sensation, the sight or the feeling itself. In the book’s account the framework is the ground that touch, sight and feeling carry, so a ticked statement counts toward Intellectual instead of its own channel. Left unticked, the scoring is exactly as described. The result tells you how many statements you marked.
Tool 2
You describe the version of yourself you most want to feel like, in your own words, and place yourself on a small number of axes. The written profile is assembled from your wording and your placements. There is no hidden score and no right placement; the numbers are the positions you set.
Tool 3
Three axes (A, C and D) use five statements each. Ratings are flipped where a statement is worded the other way round, added up, and stretched onto a 0 to 100 scale, where 0 is the lowest possible total and 100 the highest. The fourth axis (B) compares two groups of statements: how strongly you answered the “moving toward” statements against the “moving away” statements. Balanced answers sit at 50, strong movement toward at the top, strong movement away at the bottom. Missing or damaged answers count as neutral.
Tool 4
This tool counts. Any statement you rate 5 or higher is counted in one of three groups: six statements about erosion, nine about structural failure conditions, and three about whether the framework still feels real to you. The reading follows from the three counts:
If erosion is very high (five or six) or failure conditions are numerous (seven or more), the result puts support and care first. The categories come from the book’s argument, not from clinical criteria. If you are in distress, please talk to someone you trust or a professional.
Tool 6
Three small readings from groups of statements. Which threshold: the highest-rated of four statements is the primary one, and any rated 5 or more are named as also true; if all four are low, the reading says so. Which architecture: your answers on three groups are compared (the first alone, the second and third averaged, the fourth and fifth averaged). The highest group wins; if two are within one point of the top, the reading is “more than one”. Which cost: two statements about the cost of crossing and of not crossing are compared; if one is more than a point heavier it is named, otherwise the costs are called comparable. A third statement, rated 5 or more, also makes the costs comparable.
Tools 5 and 7
These two do not score anything. They assemble the choices you make into a written protocol or matrix. Because they hold your own free wording, they never contribute to research.
Checked automatically
The scoring rules are tested on every change: percentages always add up to 100, scores stay inside their range, raising an answer never lowers its own score, damaged input cannot produce nonsense, and a fixed set of 300 answer sets must give exactly the same results as before. A change to any score is therefore always deliberate.