Challenge: Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE)

In my last post about Robert Sutton's book "The No Asshole Rule" I challenged all HR Professionals to do the ARSE and report their personal score in the comments.

Congratulations to all the courageous ones who disclosed their scores! Here's an update

• 7 people participated with an average score of 5.43
• no Certified Assholes participated
• Laurie came up with the (not yet) scientific term AQ (Asshole Quotient)

I've published some statistics here.

Both in the book and in the online ARSE, the test consists of a total of 24 questions to the following topics:

• What are your gut reactions to people (8 questions)
• How do you treat other people? (10 questions)
• How do people react to you? (6 questions)

All "true" statements are counted which leads to the following possible results:

• 0-5 true: you're not a certificed asshole (if you answered honestly)
• 5-15: borderline certificied asshole
• 15 or more: full-blown certified asshole

To make my little statistics project possible I tweaked the categories to 0-5, 6-15 and 16-24.

The challenge is still open! Don't be afraid and don't be shy!