What does the way you draw a tree reveal about your personality? That’s the premise behind the Baum Test — a projective personality assessment developed by Swiss psychologist Charles Koch in 1949. The idea is deceptively simple: the choices you make when sketching a tree, the shape of the trunk, how you draw the branches, whether the roots are visible, are thought to reflect something about your inner psychological world. A colleague of mine who specializes in projective assessment has been refining an updated version of this technique and has asked for help gathering data from as many people as possible. The activity takes about three minutes. You’ll draw a single tree, and the system will generate a personality profile based on what you draw. At the end, you’ll be asked to rate how accurately the profile describes you. Give it a try.
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