12 Axes
A political values test that places you on twelve separate axes instead of a single left-right line. You'll see a series of statements and say how much you agree with each. At the end you get a score on every axis, the ideologies, thinkers, and historical countries closest to your answers, and a list showing which answers moved each score. Everything runs in your browser: your answers are not sent anywhere. About the axes
How much do you agree?
Keyboard: press 1 to 5 to answer.
Your results
Your twelve axes
Closest ideologies
Matched on four reference dimensions from the 12axes source: economic equality (Economy axis), security (Power axis), globalist trade (Trade axis), and social progress (Culture axis). Similarity is 100% for an exact match and 0% for the farthest possible point.
Closest thinkers
Closest historical countries
Thinker and country positions are illustrative editorial estimates on the same four dimensions, not measurements. Positions use present-day standards, the same scale as your own scores, not the standards of each figure's time.
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This is an educational tool. It has not been independently validated, and the results describe these answers at this time, not a fixed identity.
Comparison
Biggest gaps
Most agreement
Axis by axis
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This is an educational tool. It has not been independently validated, and the results describe these answers at this time, not a fixed identity.
About the axes
Each axis runs between two poles. Neither end is better; they are different answers to the same question. Your score is the share of your answers that pointed toward each pole, so the two always add up to 100%.
How scoring works
Every statement leans toward one pole of its axis. Agreeing moves you toward that pole and disagreeing moves you away from it; strong answers count twice as much as plain ones, and Neutral counts for nothing. Each axis is then scaled against the most your own statements could have moved it, so a Short run and an Extreme run land on the same 0 to 100 scale. Statements are drawn at random each time, with some leaning each way on every axis.