Self-assessment, built like research
Find out what you actually believe, not what you call yourself.
Labels compress a person into one word. Our tests report a shape instead — several independent dimensions, scored separately, with the method published so you can argue with it.
- Free to take
- No account to see where you land
- 80 statements · ~11 min
Statement 14 of 80
State axis
“A rule that lowers a shared risk is worth the freedom it costs.”
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neutral
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Forward-keyed item: agreeing moves you toward collective authority. Half the statements on this axis are worded the other way round.
Why this reads differently
Four specific decisions, not a claim about artificial intelligence.
Every quiz on the internet promises a personalised result. These are the design choices that make ours worth the 11 minutes — each one is checkable, and each one costs us something.
Four axes, scored separately
A single left-right number gives the same answer to someone with two strong opposing views and someone with no views at all. We score economics, social continuity, state authority and scope of obligation independently, so those two people look nothing alike.
Half the statements are reversed
People drift toward agreeing with whatever sentence is in front of them. If every item pointed the same way, the test would measure agreeableness. Roughly half of each axis is reverse-keyed so that pull cancels out instead of deciding your result.
The match percentage is published
Your profile name is a summary of your coordinates, and summaries fit some people better than others. We show how well yours fits. A match in the sixties means you sit between two descriptions — you should know that, not be handed one with false confidence.
Principle-level statements only
Nothing in the test names a party, a campaign or anything in the news. A statement tied to a live dispute stops measuring your disposition and starts measuring which side you recognise the sentence as belonging to. Those are different things.
How scoring works
Three steps, and none of them are secret.
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You answer 80 statements
One statement per screen, five response options, about 11 minutes. Each statement belongs to exactly one axis and carries a direction — agreeing pushes you toward one pole or the other.
02
Each axis is scored on its own
Responses on an axis are combined, reversed items are flipped back, and the total is normalised to a position from −100 to +100. No axis borrows from another, which is what keeps them independent.
03
Your coordinates get a name
The four positions are compared against profile centroids, and the nearest one supplies your label — along with the distance, reported as a match percentage so you can judge the fit yourself.
The full scoring rules, the reverse-keying table and a plain list of what the test cannot tell you are all on one page.
Read the methodologyThe library
One test live. Five more being built properly.
We would rather publish one instrument that holds up than six that do not. Each test below ships when its scoring survives review — not when the landing page is ready.
Political Spectrum Test
Four independent value axes, scored from 80 statements in about 11 minutes.
Take the test →
Personality Structure Test
The five broad traits, reported as a continuum rather than a four-letter type.
Read the research note →
Core Values Test
Rank what you actually trade off when two good things cannot both win.
How value scoring works →
Cognitive Style Test
How you reach a conclusion — and how readily you revisit one.
Read about reasoning bias →
Conflict Style Test
What you reach for first when a disagreement gets uncomfortable.
Why labels break down →
Moral Foundations Test
The intuitions that fire before you have finished reading the argument.
Read about the vertical axis →
What you get back
A position on every axis, before a label is applied.
This is an illustrative result, not a screenshot of a marketing mock-up — the chart below is drawn from the same component the real result page uses.
Nearest profile
The Civic Pragmatist
81%
match
An 81% match means this description will mostly land. It also means roughly a fifth of it will not, and the profile page tells you which fifth rather than hoping you do not notice.
Economic
mild shared provision
A clear but not absolute lean toward collective provision. Expect this one to be the most stable if you retake the test.
Social
mild change
Mildly revision-friendly. Scores near the middle here usually mean the answer genuinely depends on the arrangement in question.
State
near-centre personal liberty
Close to the centre, leaning liberty. This is the axis that moves most when circumstances change.
World
mild global belonging
The widest position in this profile, and the one people are most often surprised by.
Economic and state axes shown. Social and world are scored on the same scale and listed alongside.
What people say after taking it
Placeholder copy. These are replaced with verified reviews once the test has been public long enough to have them — we will not invent a number of reviews we do not have.
I expected the economic axis to be the interesting one. It was the fourth axis that stopped me — I had never actually been asked how far my circle of obligation runs.
Sample review
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The match percentage is the bit that made me trust it. Being told the label only fits me 68% was more convincing than any confident description would have been.
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Every other test of this kind reads like it wants me to be angry about something. This one just told me where I stand and left me to it.
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Questions
Before you start
Anything not covered here is probably in the methodology or the insights archive.
How long does the political spectrum test take?
About 11 minutes. There are 80 statements, one per screen, with five response options each. You can go back and change an answer, and your progress is kept on this device if you stop partway.
Do I have to create an account or pay to see my result?
No. The test is free to take and your position on all four axes is shown without an account. The paid plan unlocks the full written report, the comparison detail and every test we publish later.
Is this a political test or a values test?
A values test. Every statement is written at the level of principle — efficiency, obligation, risk, authority — and nothing in it names a party, candidate, campaign or election. It describes where you stand; it never tells you what to do about it.
How accurate is a 11-minute test?
Accurate about dispositions, and honest about the rest. 80 items across four axes — twenty on each — is enough to place you reliably on each one. It cannot tell you how you will behave in a specific situation, how much you have thought about any of it, or whether your positions are correct — and we say so on the methodology page.
Will I get the same result if I take it again?
Broadly, yes, with real movement on some axes. Economic positions are the most stable. The social axis drifts slowly over a lifetime and the state axis responds to circumstance within months, so a retest a year later usually moves a little rather than not at all.
What do you do with my answers?
Your responses are used to produce your result and to improve the scoring of the instrument in aggregate. They are never tied to a political profile sold to anyone, because we do not sell one. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
About 11 minutes
You already have a guess. Find out if it holds.
80 statements, four axes, and a result that shows you the coordinates before it shows you the label.
Free to take. No account needed to see where you land.