When you make a choice, what feels most true: that you could have acted differently, that prior causes shaped the moment, or that some outcomes remain hard to predict? This test maps the different intuitions that can coexist in one person.
Take the free Free Will and Agency Test. It contains 32 original questions across 4 separate areas. The questionnaire and basic information are free to read.
More than one view of choice
People often switch between explanations without noticing. A decision can feel deliberate, influenced by a history of causes, and still affected by events no one could foresee.
This questionnaire treats those as separate intuitions. It does not assume that one perspective cancels the others or that a score settles a philosophical debate.
The four lenses
Your free result separates personal agency, causal determination, fatalistic inevitability and unpredictability. Each area reflects how strongly your answers fit its statements.
The detailed analysis looks at the combinations. Someone may feel responsible for choices while also believing that circumstances shape the options available; another person may see events as caused yet remain unsure what will happen next.
From an idea to a question
The optional report traces your 32 answers through all four areas and offers a tailored interpretation of their balance. A short set of reflection prompts connects abstract ideas with everyday judgments about effort, responsibility and change.
Take the test and view its basic information for free. The full analysis and e-book are optional, available later with a single one-time payment.
Inside your profile
Personal Agency
How readily you experience your intentions and choices as meaningful contributors to what you do.
Causal Influence
How strongly you think past events, biology, learning and present conditions explain what a person does.
Inevitability
How often you expect important outcomes to unfold the same way regardless of what someone chooses.
Unpredictability and Chance
How much you expect events to include genuine surprise, uncertainty or outcomes that resist prediction.
How to answer
Read each statement as a view you may hold, not as a fact you are expected to accept. Choose the response closest to your current intuition; it is fine if two ideas both feel plausible.
Allow about 4-6 minutes. Five response options let you show whether a statement fits strongly, somewhat or only in part.
How to read the scores
Each area is scored separately. The values show how closely your answers align with the statements in that area; they are not a competition between the areas and they do not add up to 100. The full report shows the response trail behind each score.
What the optional analysis adds
The free result gives you a basic starting point. The optional detailed analysis opens all 4 area scores, individualized interpretations matched to those scores and a review of every saved answer. It also includes reflection prompts and the companion e-book Choice, Cause and the Open Question: A Guide to Thinking About Free Will.
The additional analysis is unlocked with one payment. You can complete the test and read the basic information before deciding whether you want the report.
Before you begin
Does the score decide whether free will exists?
No. It describes how your answers align with four perspectives. Philosophical arguments remain open, and the areas can overlap.
Can I agree with both agency and determinism statements?
Yes. The dimensions are independent, so your profile can show a mix rather than a single either-or position.
What can I read for free?
The 32-question test and basic information are free. A detailed interpretation and the companion guide are optional one-time purchases.
