An EQ score of 115 to 129

What the region claims

From 115 to 129 you sit one to two standard deviations above a mean-100 sample’s average, roughly the 84th to the 97th queue position in a hundred. A repeatable score here says you describe yourself well above the sample’s typical answers across most of what the test asked. That is a real and consistent self-portrait.

The two artefacts

The first is flattery. Self-report items about empathy and composure are transparent, and people who see themselves generously drift upward on them without intending to. High regions of self-report scales mix genuine disposition with a generous self-narrator, and no questionnaire can fully unpick the two. This is why serious reports pair a self-report track with a separately scored situational one: agreement between the tracks is far more informative than either alone.

The second is ceiling. As answers approach the scale’s top, there is less room left to register differences, so distinctions between high scorers compress. The measurement gets coarser exactly where the numbers look most impressive.

What it cannot support

The step from "I describe myself this way" to "others experience me this way". The higher the self-report, the more valuable an outside check becomes, because the failure mode of this region is a strength narrative nobody around you quite recognises. The facet-level costs of very high scores are real too: the report worth paying for is the one that names them.

How we handle it

We publish every score as a percentage of its own maximum with its margin printed beside it, and the method is public. The test is free to take; the free result shows your classification and the shape of your profile, and the full scored report, every figure with its margin, is available as a one-off purchase or inside membership.

The last region, 130 and above, is where the scale is at its weakest.

The rest of this family

Every page here does the same job for a different number: the full set is indexed on the hub.