The new Turteagram Personality System.

There are 10 major categories of personality –

Reason: Rational, Evidence-minded, Discerning, Reflective, Sceptical, Precise, Observant, Practical, Decisive

Integrity: Honest, Principled, Trustworthy, Accountable, Responsible, Fair, Loyal, Consistent, Reliable

Control: Calm, Regulated, Patient, Restrained, Disciplined, Measured, Stable, Balanced, Tolerant

Resilience: Courageous, Brave, Persistent, Resilient, Adaptable, Autonomous, Independent

Humility: Humble, Fallible, Self-aware, Forgiving, Gracious

Kindness: Kind, Empathetic, Generous, Respectful, Warm, Amiable, Affable, Thoughtful

Candour: Direct, Assertive

Diligence: Conscientious, Diligent

Curiosity: Curious

Cheerfulness: Cheerful, Optimistic, Upbeat, Lighthearted, Positive, Buoyant, Hopeful, Pleasant, Sunny, Genial, Good-humoured, Joyful, Merry, Lively, Bright, Easygoing, Playful, Encouraging, Animated, Sociable, Untroubled, Content

Each category is scored out of 100.

A score of 100 does not represent the best person you know, the population maximum, or the top percentile. It represents the theoretical maximum: the fully ideal version of that trait.

The ideal human, in this scheme, scores 100/100 in every category.

That person has never existed. In fact, the ideal person would be considered competely mad.

In fact, if that person did exist, they would probably be considered completely mad. Perfect honesty, perfect cheerfulness, perfect kindness, perfect candour, perfect humility and perfect self-control would not look normal. It would look inhuman. A person who was never evasive, never petty, never self-deceived, never resentful, never impulsive, never lazy, never status-anxious and never captured by emotion would not read as balanced. They would read as an alien.

The point of the scale is not to describe the average person. It is to define the ceiling. Every real person sits somewhere below 100 in each category.

The distribution is not Gaussian. It is long-tailed. Most people cluster well below the theoretical maximum. Fewer people score highly. Almost nobody gets close to 100 in one category, and nobody gets close to 100 across all categories.

The ideal human is therefore not a real person, a moral saint, or a psychological average. It is a reference object. A fixed upper bound. A way of saying: this is the maximum imaginable expression of the trait, and the rest of us are somewhere below it.