 Sandra Bem's goal of the BSRI was to examine psychological androgyny and provide empirical evidence to show the advantage of a shared masculine and feminine personality versus a sex-typed categorization.The test is formatted with 60 different personality traits which participants rate themselves based on a 7-point Likert scale.Traits are evenly dispersed, 20 masculine, 20 feminine, and 20 filler traits thought to be gender neutral.