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True story or made up: which pulls you harder?

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Eleven quick slides, about 33 seconds. No sign-up needed.

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Made up or true story, dramatic license or by the record, the retelling or the real thing: your taste for what really happened, scored. Real scores from 0 to 100 on each dimension, not a box, and the puck notices how you answer, not only what.

Your true-story taste

Where you lean right now, as numbers. Each bar runs from one pole to the other.

For fun: a read of your taste right now, not a label.

Questions people ask

Is this scientific?

No. It's a taste read built on a few well-studied preference patterns, for fun. Your scores describe what pulls you right now.

Is wanting true stories a more serious taste?

No. A made-up story can go anywhere, and that freedom is its own kind of truth. A true story carries the weight of having happened. Both are grown-up pleasures.

Where do the picks come from?

From the true-story shelf of our own catalog: biopics, memoirs, biographies and true crime, well-known ones first. Your answers don't change the list: it's the same shelf whichever way you lean. Nothing is sponsored.