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The free instruments log anonymous scores with no personal information — no name, no email, no IP address. If you create an account, your email is stored on our own servers and your results are linked to your account. You can delete your account at any time. No data is sold or shared with third parties.

Cèrcol is available in English, Catalan/Valencian, Spanish, French, German, and Danish. All six languages cover the full assessment — instrument questions, results, and all content. The Danish translation is based on the validated adaptation by Vedel, Gøtzsche-Astrup & Holm (2018, Nordic Psychology). The French translation follows the peer-reviewed methodology by Thiry & Piolti (2023, University of Mons).

The questions come from peer-reviewed, widely-validated instruments. The five-dimension scores are reliable for a self-report tool of this length. The role scoring is clearly labelled beta — it uses theoretical starting points and will become more accurate as real data accumulates. Take the dimensions seriously; treat the role as a useful first guess.

Yes. Cèrcol measures personality using the OCEAN model (Big Five) via the IPIP — the International Personality Item Pool, a public-domain collection validated in thousands of published studies. The five dimensions are Presence (Extraversion), Bond (Agreeableness), Vision (Openness), Discipline (Conscientiousness), and Depth (Neuroticism). Because the IPIP is public domain there are no licence restrictions: the full item pool and scoring logic are open and citable.

Three things set Cèrcol apart. First, the items come from the Big Five (OCEAN), the most replicated personality model in academic research — not a proprietary framework. Second, the full item pool (IPIP) and scoring pipeline are public domain and auditable; there is no black box. Third, the Witness peer assessment uses forced-choice adjective selection instead of Likert scales, which eliminates the social desirability bias that affects most 360-feedback tools. Belbin and DISC use closed, proprietary methodologies.

The Witness is someone you invite to describe you from the outside. They see groups of words and pick which ones fit you best and worst — a short forced-choice task that takes about 5 minutes. An ideal Witness is someone who has spent real time with you: a colleague, a housemate, a close friend. Not your biggest fan, not your harshest critic. Someone who sees you as you actually are.

New Moon is 10 questions and takes 2 minutes — a quick orientation. First Quarter is 60 questions and takes 10 minutes — a fuller picture with 30 facets and a first look at your role. Full Moon is 120 questions, includes the Witness assessment, and is paid — it is the definitive result. Each instrument is standalone; you can start anywhere.

If First Quarter feels insufficient — if you want to understand a specific facet more deeply, see how others perceive you, or get a reliable role result — then yes. The Witness comparison is the most distinctive part: it shows where your self-perception matches the outside view and where it doesn't. That gap is often where the most useful information lives.

Yes. Each instrument stores your most recent result. If you retake, your previous result will be permanently removed from your account — you will be asked to confirm before this happens. Retaking can be useful to track how you have changed over months or years.

You send a Witness — someone who knows you well — a unique link. They see five adjectives per round, one for each personality dimension, and pick the one that best fits you and the one that least fits you. This forced-choice format eliminates the social desirability bias that appears in Likert-scale peer ratings. After 20 rounds, their scores are compared with your self-report. Dimensions where the gap exceeds 0.8 standard deviations are flagged as potential blind spots. You can invite up to 12 Witnesses; scores are averaged across all of them.

A blind spot is a personality dimension where how you see yourself and how others see you diverge significantly — more than 0.8 standard deviations apart. For example, if you rate yourself low on Presence but your Witnesses consistently rate you high, that gap is a blind spot. Blind spots are neither good nor bad. They are information: they show where your self-perception and others' experience of you don't match, which is often more useful than the score itself.

Yes. Create a group from your account and invite teammates by email. Once everyone has completed Full Moon Cèrcol, the Last Quarter Cèrcol team report is available: it shows role distribution, dimension balance across the group, shared blind spots, and a team narrative. Each member needs a Full Moon result; Witness results add depth to the individual profiles within the report.