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These are all great questions! I am currently working on adding a section that answers all of them, but I can do a short version here:

The reason you have three choices of results is because I feel like getting a single result from a personality test is boring and restrictive. I like having the option to dig a little deeper and make my own conclusions about myself, especially since every personality test -- including this one -- will inherently have flaws and blind spots.

Plus, people have pre-existing connections with specific pokemon types, so I wanted to provide more opportunities for users to see something that they already connected with. Conversely, if they get a result they don't like, I wanted to leave space to identify with something other than a type they already hated.

So on that note, you can ABSOLUTELY mix and match, and in fact, I think it's a great idea! Originally, I didn't even have the numbers visible, because I just wanted folks to decide for themselves based on their top 3 most likely results, but then folks wanted to see their numbers, so I put 'em in.

The numbers themselves indicate the likelihood that you're a specific type. There's a lot of attributes (46, specifically) that feed into the different type calculations, so between all those factors, it's normal for the numbers to not appear conclusive.

But that's also just pokemon in general. Like, a Mankey doesn't match up with all the most common traits of Fighting monotypes, but it's still a Fighting monotype - even outliers need a home!

Bonus Explanation: as a little side-thing, the Pokedex color changes based on the strongest association across all mono/primary/secondary types (e.g. Fairy here) and the stat bar color changes based on the second-strongest association* (e.g. Flying here). It was originally just for aesthetic reasons, so that I didn't have to design around the clashing-prone Pokedex colors, but it could also provide a little structure to mixing-and-matching, if someone wanted something a little more solid.

*this doesn't happen if your strongest association is significantly stronger than the runner-up, in which case the bars will be that strongest color as well

I guess this didn't end up being the "short version", but I hope this helps explain things! If not, let me know, that would certainly be good information to have as I'm writing up the proper explanation. (Or I might just copy+paste this, tbh)

Thank you for the great questions and also for sharing your results :)