Ad Council research

How do you decide about your health?

Fifteen statements. Answer fast, with your gut. It takes about two minutes.

This is not a health test. There are no right answers and no healthy or unhealthy result. It sorts people by how they take in information and make decisions, which turns out to shape how health messages land.

Your answers stay in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is stored.

Based on a study of 1,561 U.S. adults and the published 15-item typing tool.

1 of 15 Go with your first reaction

How much does this describe you?

1 means it doesn’t describe you at all 6 means it describes you completely
Keys 1 to 6 work too

Your result

 

Messages reach you when they

    Messages lose you when they

      None of the four is better than the others

      These describe different ways of processing information, not different levels of health or good sense. A message that works for one group can fall flat for another, which is the whole point of measuring this.

      How the four lined up for you

      Plenty of people sit near a line between two types. Read your runner-up as well. It will often ring true too.

      Your type comes from the published 15-item typing tool, which reproduces the original four-segment solution for 85% of respondents overall (90% Enthusiasts, 87% Skeptics, 82% Overwhelmed, 77% Mavericks).

      The segments come from a survey of 1,561 U.S. adults who rated 24 cognitive bias statements. Because the sample was not weighted to U.S. benchmarks, the share shown with your type describes the study sample rather than the country. Read the study and download the full tool.