Gray Wheelwright Winer (GWW) Test

The Gray-Wheelwright-Winer 4-letter Type Indicator Test Test Input

The Gray-Wheelwright-Winer 4-letter Type Indicator Test

This on-line version of the Gray Wheelwright typing test, designed in the 1930's, preceeded the more popular test developed by Myers-Briggs (Myers Briggs). Two American physicians at Stanford University Medical Center, Drs. Horace Gray and Joseph Wheelwright were students of Jung and both became Jungian analysts. In 2002, Dr. Winer re-wrote the test analysis to transform the test's result of a 3 letter type into a device that produced a 4-letter type enabling its results to be directly compared to Myers Briggs test. The results were less than satisfactory, and a second and third edition of the test were produced. It gradually became clear that the test questions were antiquated and needed to be re-examined for relevancy, extensively edited for clarity, and that new questions needed to be composed. By May, 2006 the third edition proved to be reliable and the results were validated against both the Myers Briggs and Keirsey test. Also, the number of questions was reduced from 81 to 70.

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1. In a social setting, do you prefer to

Talk
Listen

2. In viewing a problem, do you: First try to measure, count, or define it
First look at its background features

3. Are you more interested in: What someone does
Why or what motivates a person to do it

4. Is your nature more to: Categorize life by thoughts
Categorize life by feelings

5. Are your opinions, decisions, or judgments based upon: Some logical principle or category
Your own or society's values

6. Are you usually: On time
Late

7. In practice, is your style to set up appointments: Long in advance
Do them at the last moment

8. Granting that you've adapted your behavior to a social settings, is it your real impulse: To speak out
To keep quiet

9. Assuming your living was assured and that you could take a job for enjoyment or to have something to do. Would you take one that is more: Useful to yourself or others
On the imaginative side

10. Do you prefer pictures that portray things that are: On the earth / ground
In the sky / air

11. In trying to understand a society or an individual, do you learn about their: Principles and laws
Myths and values

12. In forming an opinion of someone, do you more pay attention to: The actual words they say
What you believe is in their heart

13. When you visit tourist sites in a place unfamiliar to you, do you: Get exact directions to the place
Get general directions and find out specifics later

14. Is your impulse to be: Punctual
Leisurely

15. Are you eager to join in with the group: Usually
Seldom

16. In gaining information about a culture, do you tend to look first at: The problems of an individual person in that society
The problems of that society as a whole

17. In giving praise, do you look at the: Specific actions
The overall result

18. Mostly, do you prefer people with: Good thinking
Good feeling

19. Is tact to you a matter of: Respecting independent views
Warm sympathy

20. When about to travel, do you pack up: Several days before
At the last moment

21. When you read the book you've bought and find it disappointing, do you: Finish it anyway
Stop reading it and/or find a new one

22. Do you like to chat with clerks, hairdressers, workers, etc.: Yes
No

23. Do you take in more about a situation from the: Actual circumstances
The background to the actual circumstances

24. When you focus your attention on a task or goal, do you tend to overlook the details: Seldom
Often

25. When confronted with the misfortune of others is your impulse to: Search for the cause
Console

26. In reasoning, do you proceed from the: Particular case to the general rule
General rule to the particular case

27. When listening to others, do you tend: Help them get to the point
Let them speak as long as they want

28. When situations are mildly uncertain, do you tend to: Do something
Let it work itself out

29. Is the telephone's ring a pleasure?: Yes
No

30. In a work of art, do you prefer it to be: Photographic in quality
Abstract of imaginative

31. In reading for information, do you prefer the presentation: To be to the point; Many-sided

32. In making a judgment about a person's reaction or behavior, do give a greater weight to: The general principles of human behavior that apply
The individual's unique traits and/or their specific situation

33. When you overhear two people having a difference of opinion, do you decide who is right on the basis: The strength of the points made
How you feel about each of them or about their behavior

34. Is orderliness?: Very important
Not very important

35. Do you tend to spend now or save for a rainy day?: Spend now
Save for later

36. In regard to friends which is more important to you: Quantity
Quality

37. Are you more interested in people's: Profession
Background growing up and life experience

38. When I let my mind dream new possibilities, I feel: Uncomfortable
Intrigued

39. Empathy is a major way I make decisions: No
Yes

40. Do you take observations as facts:: To be studied?
To be valued for usefulness?

41. On which side is your temperament: Deliberate
Spontaneous

42. Do you generally "size up" a person on the basis of a short talk: Yes
No

43. Do you enjoy meeting a lot of new people: Yes
No

44. In reading, do you prefer: Biography
Novels

45. When you meet people do you prefer to listen to what they: Do
Dream of

46. Gut feelings should be listened to: No
Yes

47. Devotion is the most important thing in a relationship: No
Yes

48. If living alone would you: Keep things in precise order
Not bother much with such things

49. Do conclusions come to you by: Deliberate reasoning
Immediate inspiration

50. At a party are you happier with: Twelve people
Three people

51. Does a problem seem like a closed room which intuition has to open: Quite frequently
Not much

52. Do you tend to see: One thing at a time
A variety of things at once

53. Which principle is more important in making your decisions: What you or others think
What you or others feel

54. When a person has a wrong idea, in the moment, do you: Try show them why your idea is correct
Try to reach some agreement

55. Having formed an opinion, do you: Tend to stick to it
Alter it

56. Is orderliness in you or your surroundings: Important
Unimportant

57. Do long encounters with people leave you drained: No
Yes

58. Are you inclined to pursuits that involve new possibilities: Quite a bit
Not much

59. Which is more of an achievment, a person who is: Practical
Creative

60. Towards achieving your goals do you choose on the basis of: Principles and facts
Feelings and possibilities

61. Is it necessary to be passionate about your decisions: No
Yes

62. With regard to future possibilities, do you: Plan for various contingencies
Cross bridges as they come

63. Do you prefer to make decisions: Immediately
At leisure

64. Are you more energized if others join with you in your plans: Always
Sometimes

65. Do you tend to see:: The individual tree rather than the forest as a whole
The forest rather than the individual tree

66. In paintings, which attracts you more: Portraits
Landscapes

67. Do you make decisions with your: Head
Heart

68. Do people error more by ignoring: The principles of the matter
What has value to them or others

69. Were you born with a time clock in your head that you closely follow:: Yes
No

70.When picking a present for somebody, do you seek something: You think they want
You think will be a surprise