pymetrics games: practise all 12
pymetrics (now part of Harver) asks you to play twelve short games, about 25 minutes in all. Each is based on a classic psychology experiment, and none is pass or fail on its own.
How the real test works
- You play all twelve games, usually in one sitting; you can pause between games.
- Each opens with a short instruction page. Most use the mouse or the spacebar; several pay in pretend money.
- There is no overall right score. pymetrics says it measures traits such as attention, risk taking, effort, memory, fairness and emotion reading, and compares your profile with people who do well in the role.
- How employers use the profile is not public. Practice helps you know the rules so the real thing holds no surprises.
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Where our versions come from
pymetrics publishes no rules for its games. We built each from the research task it is based on (the balloon risk task, the trust game, digit span, the Tower of London, the Iowa gambling task and others), checked against a candidate's recording of the real test where one exists and against what other practice sites consistently report. Each game page says which, and what is not confirmed.
Sources: a candidate's 2022 recording of Money Exchange, Keypresses, Balloons and Easy or Hard; Wilson et al., Building and Auditing Fair Algorithms: A Case Study in Candidate Screening, FAccT 2021 (with pymetrics staff); the original papers for each research task, listed in our game notes.