The Dark Mirror Index
Edition No. 162 · daily
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Sample 7,722 takes+145 since yesterdaySince 4 April 2026 · 6 axes · 20 items43 regions with 30+ takes

Open data · Edition 162

Take the numbers with you

Everything the Index charts, as a file: the six axis histograms, type counts and what comes second for each type, the per-type cohort histograms, and counts for every region with 30 or more takes. Aggregates from 7,722 takers, recomputed every morning, licensed CC BY 4.0. Individual takes are never released, in any form.

CSV

Long format, one row per count

table, group, axis, score, count. Opens in anything.

JSON

The snapshot as the site reads it

Histograms, types, cohorts, regions, reliability figures.

Terms, in one paragraph

Use it, chart it, teach with it, publish with it. Credit the Index and link the edition you used; that is the whole licence. Say "people who took the Dark Mirror" rather than a population, because that is what it measures, and read the method before quoting a share from a small group. Numbers change every morning; the edition number in the file header pins the one you used.

Batra, K. (2026). The Dark Mirror Index, Edition 162 (n = 7,722) [dataset]. kanikarose.com. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22228971.

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Twenty scenarios, seven minutes. Your take joins tomorrow's edition.

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Your numberTake the Dark Mirror, seven minutes, and see where you land on this curveThe long readDark psychology, the beginner's guideThe bookThe Sociopathic Dating Bible, the instrument this quiz grew out of

Method

The Dark Mirror is a 20-item scenario quiz. Each answer is attributed to one of six axes; a score is the share of your answers that fell to that axis, so scores move in steps of five. Your type is simply your highest axis.

Baseline
0 to 15
Present, not a feature.
Traits
20 to 35
Recognisable and common. Not the person.
Pronounced
40 to 55
The axis is shaping choices.
High
60 to 100
Dominant. The only band to read as the type.

Every axis is read in four bands: baseline (0 to 15), traits (20 to 35), pronounced (40 to 55) and high (60 to 100). Bands are fixed cut points chosen so that high means at least twelve of twenty answers went to one axis. They are the Index's reading aid, not clinical thresholds.

Percentiles are computed against everyone who has taken the quiz and recomputed daily at 09:41 UTC; each recomputation is an edition. Ties are split down the middle: higher than 91% means 91% of takers scored strictly lower, plus half of those who tied.

Regions are browser timezones, so New York means Eastern-time takers rather than the five boroughs; regions with fewer than thirty takes are held back. Nothing here is a population estimate and nothing here is a diagnosis.

Written and read by Kanika Batra, diagnosed ASPD, clinically assessed as Factor 1 psychopathy. An audience portrait, not a census.

The full method, exclusions, reliability and how to cite