QUIET
Quiet signal
“The comic sans mockup won the vote” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “A poll measures what twelve people clicked, not what will hold up on the actual page.”
SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “The comic sans mockup won the vote”, including the private rule underneath it: If the option I built to be the obvious reject is the one the room picks, my sense of what looks right must be out of step with what the room actually wants — so I should stop trusting it and start guessing what wins a vote instead.
QUIET
“The comic sans mockup won the vote” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “A poll measures what twelve people clicked, not what will hold up on the actual page.”
PRESENT
“The comic sans mockup won the vote” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “I can flag which option is the professional recommendation before anyone votes.”
ACTIVE
“The comic sans mockup won the vote” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Rank the three mockups yourself against one legibility test before rereading the vote count, and write your ranking down privately first.
DOMINANT
Right now, “The comic sans mockup won the vote” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Rank the three mockups yourself against one legibility test before rereading the vote count, and write your ranking down privately first.