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

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How histrionic are you compared to everyone else?

The histrionic axis is the quiet one: 93% of 7,722 takers sit at baseline. Before the 2026-08-27 rebalance the quiz offered it in too few scenarios for it to ever be anyone's highest axis; it now competes on equal footing, and this curve counts takes from that date only, so the sample is smaller than the other five axes and grows by the day. That is a property of the quiz, reported here so a low curve is not read as a finding about people.

Pick a score

45

Pronounced

A histrionic score of 45 is higher than 99% of 3,707 takers, the top 1%. 0 people scored exactly this.

The axis is shaping choices.

BASELINE93%TRAITS7%PRONOUNCED0%HIGH0%KANIKAYOU0255075100
The histrionic axis. Count of takers at each score; the vertical line is the score you picked and the band it falls in is named. The dashed gold line is Kanika's own score.

That was a score you picked. Twenty scenarios, seven minutes, and the Index reads your real one on every axis.

Get your real one

Kanika Batra sat the same twenty scenarios. Her histrionic score is 0, the baseline band, higher than 18% of takers. She is diagnosed ASPD, clinically assessed as Factor 1 psychopathy, by her psychiatrist; the dashed line is one person's self-report on a screener, not a clinical reading of it.

baselinetraitspronouncedhigh
baseline 93% (3,432)traits 7% (272)pronounced 0% (3)high 0% (0)

The ladder

Every row is a permalink (#score-60): a histrionic score of 60 is higher than 99% of takers.

ScoreBandTakersHigher than
100High099%
95High099%
90High099%
85High099%
80High099%
75High099%
70High099%
65High099%
60High099%
55Pronounced099%
50Pronounced199%
45Pronounced099%
40Pronounced299%
35Traits699%
30Traits2299%
25Traits7398%
20Traits17195%
15Baseline31288%
10Baseline63776%
5Baseline1,12652%
0Baseline1,35718%

Straight answers

Frequently asked questions

Why is almost nobody's primary type histrionic?

Until the 2026-08-27 rebalance the quiz offered a histrionic answer in only a handful of scenarios, so the axis could not accumulate the answers needed to be anyone's highest. It now appears as often as every other dark axis, and histrionic primaries can accumulate from that date. Earlier takes are excluded from the histrionic curve, so its sample starts on 2026-08-27 and is smaller than the others for a while.

What is a high histrionic score here?

The top 10% starts at 20. Almost nobody reaches the high band at 60.

Is a high score a diagnosis?

No. It is a self-report across twenty scenarios. Only a clinician can diagnose, and only with a proper assessment. Read the band, not a label.

What this axis measures

Answers that reach for attention and drama. Before the 2026-08-27 rebalance few scenarios offered that pull, so takes from before it are left out of this curve rather than read as zeros.

Traits, or the type?

A taste for the spotlight is ordinary. Histrionic personality disorder is rare, clinical, and not what a twenty-item quiz can find.

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See where you fall on the histrionic axis.

Seven minutes, twenty scenarios, then your band and percentile on every axis against everyone above.

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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.

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