Hey there,
I've recently done the Scientology personality test and wrote a blog post about it. My readers as well as I are interested in this topic so I decided to do a follow-up story. I would really like to interview an Ex-Scientology-member. Would any of you care to answer a couple of questions (anonymously)?
Why not simply post your questions here? I read your blog article and I don't see why I'd need a lot of secretivness, though others might appreciate privacy.
Because I was raised in Scientology I already understood what the OCA was about when I first encountered it as a pre-teen. It is actually an easy test to game strategically, producing high or low scores on the OCA according to what you want, so long as you've read the correct materials. Almost anyone can game the OCA at least a little, not necessarily with perfect finesse, simply by perusing a chart contained in a book called
Science of Survival. That chart summarizes the book's contents describing traits that fit various rankings on something called an emotional "Tone Scale". Just memorize enough of the supposed traits that enable you to classify people according to that tone scale, answer the OCA accordingly, and you can select what kind of outcome score suits your purposes on some given occassion.
There can be motives for wanting a high score across the board of categories sometimes, such as being eligible for something that sounds cool. There can be motives to turn in a not-great score in at least one category at other times, such as to render yourself ineligible for something that doesn't sound cool but is part of some active campaign of finding warm bodies to enroll in it, if they have a good enough OCA. Taking the test to produce a modest improvment since the last time the test was taken is useful in keeping some know-it-all jerk official off your back at times, because you have "successfully" completed some procedural step as proven by some improvement in OCA score, so finesse is desirable, which means reading
Science of Survival with attention to details.