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The Judgment Check

The Three Tells self-score from The Stupidity Trap. Nine signs, each scored 0, 1 or 2. Maximum 18, and the total is a rough map, no league table.

How it works: score yourself for the past month. Your result appears on this page straight away. Your answers stay in your browser and are never sent anywhere. If you want your result by email, sign up below and confirm your email address; only your email and your front line go to our email provider, Kit.

Score yourself first, in writing, before you score anyone else aloud. 0 means rarely, 1 sometimes, 2 routinely.

Outsourced thinking

1. Answers arrive instantly on questions that deserve thought, in someone else’s phrasing.

2. The same source is cited, or the same model consulted, for every domain, medicine and money included.

3. When the aid is removed, the app dead, the pundit silent, decision-making stalls.

Willful ignorance

4. Information that threatens a position is dismissed before it is examined.

5. Curiosity operates in every direction except one.

6. “I don’t want to hear it” appears, in words or behavior, as a settled policy.

Conformity

7. Opinion arrives before information: the position exists the moment the group’s position exists.

8. Disagreement is treated as disloyalty instead of input.

9. Private doubts exist, and you know they exist, and they never make it out of the mouth in public.

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Use note: personal judgment practice, not legal, HR, medical or mental-health advice.

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