Our Methodology

How We Determine Your Country Match

SomeBigName uses a multi-dimensional psychological assessment approach to match your personality, values, and lifestyle preferences with countries that align with who you are.

This is not a simple quiz. Each question is designed to reveal insights about your core preferences across eight key dimensions that influence how well you'll adapt and thrive in different cultural and professional environments.

The Eight Dimensions

Career Ambition

Your drive for professional advancement, recognition, and career growth. High scores indicate strong ambition and desire for rapid progression.

Risk Tolerance

Your comfort with uncertainty, change, and taking calculated risks. Higher scores suggest entrepreneurial spirit and adaptability.

Work-Life Balance Preference

The importance you place on personal time, family, and life outside of work. Higher scores indicate prioritizing balance over career intensity.

Authority & Structure Tolerance

Your comfort with hierarchical structures, rules, and formal authority. Lower scores suggest preference for flat organizations and flexibility.

Cultural Adaptability

Your openness to new cultures, languages, and ways of living. Higher scores indicate greater comfort with cultural differences.

Social Dependence vs Independence

Your need for social connections and community versus self-reliance. Higher scores indicate greater independence and comfort being alone.

Lifestyle Expectations

What you value in daily life: nature, urban amenities, cost of living, safety, etc. This dimension captures your quality of life priorities.

Long-term Stability vs Exploration

Your preference for planning and stability versus staying open to new experiences. Higher scores indicate desire for predictability and long-term planning.

The Matching Algorithm

After you complete the assessment, we:

  1. Calculate your scores across all eight dimensions
  2. Normalize these scores to ensure fair comparison
  3. Compare your profile against our database of country profiles using cosine similarity
  4. Rank countries by how closely they match your dimensional profile
  5. Generate personalized explanations based on your strongest dimension matches

Cosine similarity measures the angle between two vectors in multi-dimensional space, giving us a mathematical way to determine how similar your preferences are to each country's characteristics.

Country Profiles

Each country in our database has been profiled across the same eight dimensions based on extensive research into:

  • Work culture and professional norms
  • Social systems and quality of life
  • Cultural values and communication styles
  • Economic structure and opportunities
  • Lifestyle characteristics and amenities

These profiles are regularly updated to reflect current conditions and trends.

Limitations

This assessment provides insights based on psychological and lifestyle preferences, but it cannot account for:

  • Specific visa requirements and immigration policies
  • Personal financial circumstances
  • Family obligations and relationships
  • Language proficiency requirements
  • Industry-specific opportunities
  • Current economic or political conditions

We recommend using these results as a starting point for further research and consultation with immigration professionals.