Standards and Methodology

This page documents how WhichAmI is built: how quizzes are made, what they draw on, how results are produced, how mistakes get fixed, and the lines this site will not cross. It is written so you can judge the work for yourself instead of taking any claim on faith. If something on the site falls short of these standards, email team@whichami.com.

Who Is Responsible

WhichAmI is built, owned, and maintained by Vikas Dulgunde, a software engineer with around six years of professional experience building web applications, based in London. He writes the code, authors and edits the content, and is the named person accountable for everything published here. There is no anonymous content team. More about the person behind the site is on the About page.

This matters for two honest reasons. First, the tools, scoring, and reference pages are designed and built first-hand by the engineer responsible for them, so the methodology below describes work that is actually understood and maintained, not an opaque pipeline. Second, the limits are stated plainly: this is the authority of a software engineer building genuinely useful web tools and reference content, not the authority of a clinician. WhichAmI never claims the latter.

Quiz Categories

WhichAmI publishes two distinct categories of quiz, labeled clearly so you always know what you are getting.

Personality-Core Quizzes

These quizzes draw on established personality and psychology frameworks, such as the Big Five (OCEAN), MBTI-style type indicators, attachment styles, and love languages. They are held to a higher bar: careful wording, sources where claims depend on them, and conservative result narratives that avoid overstating what a short quiz can know.

Fun Quizzes

These are themed, playful quizzes ("Which fictional city are you?", "Which decade is your taste from?"). They are clearly labeled as entertainment and make no psychological claims.

Every quiz page shows its category at the top.

How Quizzes Are Built

1. Brief. A short brief sets out the goal, the framework or theme, the audience, and the tone.
2. Research. For personality-core quizzes, the relevant framework is reviewed against published, widely-recognized material before any questions are written.
3. Drafting. Questions, answer options, and result archetypes are drafted from the brief and any source material, then revised against these standards.
4. Human editing. Vikas reads and edits every question, every result, and every narrative template, rewriting anything that is lazy, misleading, biased, or off-tone. Nothing is published unread.
5. Build and test. Each quiz is implemented as working software. Scoring, result codes, and result pages are tested so the mechanism behaves the way the copy says it does.
6. Publication and feedback loop. Reader corrections and feedback are logged and folded into future updates.

How Results Are Produced

WhichAmI is upfront about the machinery, because the machinery is the part an engineer can actually vouch for.

• Scoring is deterministic. Your answers map to a result through scoring logic that is written and tested in code. The same answers produce the same result. There is no hidden "random result" generator dressed up as insight.
• Narratives are produced, then constrained. The personalized write-up is built from your specific answers using editor-controlled templates, framed for self-reflection and kept within the entertainment-only boundary. It is not a clinical interpretation.
• No inflated numbers. Where the site shows counts (how many people took a quiz, how common a result is), those are real figures, not decoration.

Citation Policy (Personality-Core Quizzes)

Personality-core quizzes reference the frameworks they draw on, and link to reputable sources where a claim depends on a specific body of work. Examples of the kinds of sources used:

• Big Five (OCEAN): the foundational Costa and McCrae work, public IPIP item pools, and major peer-reviewed reviews.
• MBTI-style frameworks: official MBTI references alongside critical literature, so both sides are visible.
• Attachment styles: the foundational Bowlby and Ainsworth work, plus modern reviews.

Where a claim depends on a specific study, it is linked inline. Where a concept is broad consensus, a reputable overview is linked. Fun quizzes carry no citations, because they make no factual claims.

The Entertainment-Only, Not Clinical Principle

This is the rule that matters most:

WhichAmI quizzes are not psychological assessments and must not be used to diagnose any condition.

This appears on every personality-core quiz, on the Terms page, and in the result narratives where relevant. The site is built by a software engineer, not a clinician, and it never pretends otherwise. If you are looking for a real assessment, please talk to a qualified mental health professional. If you are in crisis, contact a local emergency or crisis line.

Correction Policy

Mistakes are corrected openly.

• Factual or scoring errors are fixed as soon as they can be verified, usually within one business day of a credible report. Because the same person owns the code and the content, a real fix can ship quickly.
• Substantive changes are logged with a short note and a date.
• Typos and minor wording fixes are made silently.
• Retractions. If a quiz has a serious flaw that cannot be fixed in place, it is unpublished, with an explanation here.

To report an error, email team@whichami.com with the page URL and a short note.

Editorial Responsibility

Every quiz and reference page is read, edited, and approved before it goes live, and Vikas is the named person responsible for everything published here. Drafts are revised against the source material and these standards, and nothing ships unread. Quiz illustrations are original and depict no real people or third-party characters.

No Fabricated Authority

WhichAmI does not invent credentials. No fake degrees, no purchased certifications, no imaginary expert reviewers, no "reviewed by Dr. X" badges attached to people who do not exist. Where a quiz genuinely has been reviewed by an outside subject-matter contributor, that reviewer is named on the quiz with a link to their real credentials, and only then. The honest claim is the one this site makes: a real engineer builds and stands behind these free tools and reference pages.

Independence

Advertisers do not influence quiz content, scoring, or results, and the same rule would apply to any affiliate partner or sponsor we take on in future. See the Affiliate and Ad Disclosure for how revenue and content are kept separate.

Last updated: 2026-06-16