Imagination

Fantasy is separable from intellect and from artistic taste.

High scorers have rich inner lives and elaborate freely. Low scorers stay with what is actually in front of them.

A low score is compatible with enormous creativity — many makers map reality rather than invent alternatives to it.

Four public-domain statements, answered on a five-point scale. Items marked − are reverse keyed: agreeing with them counts against the trait, which is what stops agreeing with everything from producing a high score.

• +Have a vivid imagination
• +Enjoy wild flights of fantasy
• +Love to daydream
• +Like to get lost in thought

Four items is not many. A facet measured this way carries real uncertainty, which is why every score on this site is reported as a range rather than a single number.