If you want to be scientific about it, I think there are three types of shit tests:
1. Push-Pull game plays in the courtship process;
2. Compliance tests to get something out of the interaction; and
3. Combination of both push-pull and compliance tests.
Push-Pull Shit Tests. As several in here observed, when girls are attracted to you, they will throw shit tests to gauge how interested you really are in them. For instance, I was sarging this pharmacist last night and when I was asking for her phone number she said she doesn't have a phone. The funny thing is, she kept on eye fucking me back when I eye fucked her, kept on laughing with whatever I said even when these were not funny at all, and did not pull her hand back when I held it for some 10 seconds or so.
Simply put, the girl gave compliance in the nonverbal compliance tests I gave her but she wouldn't comply with my verbal compliance test (giving me her phone number).
Compliance Tests and Push-Pull Tests. If a girl is giving you compliance tests instead of you giving it to her, then she is taking the lead in the interaction. This is a subtle girlie calibration tool on who is more dominant: her or you. Of course, it is a established fact that feminine women are attracted to dominant (not domineering) men.
The ideal interaction is that for every compliance you give to the girl, she should be complying to your verbal and non-verbal calls to action 3 times. The ratio should be 1:3. Give one compliance for every 3 compliance a girl gives you.
For instance, Thursday last week, this girl kept on qualifying herself to me that she cooks good sour pork stew. So I complied with her request to cook for me. She wanted a second compliance though. She said, I should shop for the ingredients. I said, no way. So she shopped for the ingredients.
When she came to my apartment, I asked her to clean the toilet/shower room first before cooking. She did. So we were now 1:1. After cooking and having dinner with me, I said she should take a shower, she refused. This compliance test ping pong game went on and on until I was banging her pussy.
Can you now see how compliance tests are also tied to the courtship process down to LMR and towards the f-close? Compliance tests can also be a form of foreplay.
Pure Compliance Tests. Some girls are overly manipulative and just want to get free things from guys who are attracted to them but wouldn't give anything back. These are the buy me this, buy me that kind of girls and you're better off running away from these types when they give you compliance tests starting with small, cheap items and moving forward to bigger, more expensive items.

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