Political axis test
A political axis test that keeps each issue on its own line
A political axis test places you on several lines at once, instead of one spot from left to right. The familiar version scores nine axes. The test on this site scores twelve. This page compares them. It is a separate quiz from the 9Axes project, and it will not show you that project's result.
Take the 12 Axes testWhat a multi-axis quiz is doing
Each axis is a line with two ends. Your answers move you along it, and a percentage says how far. A political axis test is the format to use when one disagreement does not predict the next. Someone can want decisions taken locally and still want a large welfare state, or want a national government and a market economy. A single left-right word hides that pair of answers.
9Axes, on its own page, describes itself as a political quiz that assigns percentages on nine axes, built from 8values. You rate a statement from strongly agree to strongly disagree. It offers 45 statements, five for each axis, or 216, twenty-four for each axis. The nine pairs it names are federal and unitary, democratic and authoritarian, globalist and isolationist, militarist and pacifist, security and freedom, equality and markets, secular and religious, progressive and traditional, and assimilationist and multiculturalist. That is the project's own description. This site does not add a formula the page does not state.
The one-line reading has its own page here, the political spectrum test. Open that when you only want left and right. Open a political axis test when you want the lines kept apart. This site also hosts an independent copy of the nine-axis questions, if that shorter map is the one you came for. The twelve scores below are a different questionnaire.
One line, nine lines or twelve
Same family of quiz, different number of lines. Only the last row is the main test on this website. The nine-axis row is another project, which this site also hosts in an independent version.
| Quiz | How you answer | What comes back | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left-right spectrum | Agree or disagree | One place from left to right | The spectrum page on this site |
| Political compass | Agree or disagree | A dot on two axes | politicalcompass.org |
| 9Axes | Agree or disagree, including a neutral | Nine percentages, from a bank of 45 or 216 statements | 9axes.github.io, and an independent copy here |
| 12 Axes test | Agree or disagree on seven steps, including a neutral | Twelve scores, a compass position, closest ideology, country and figure | This website |
9Axes and the Political Compass are independent of this site. The description of the nine-axis quiz follows its public page: nine pairs, 45 or 216 statements, percentages against the maximum on each axis. Details that page does not state are left unstated.
How the twelve-axis result differs
On this political axis test the standard length is 60 statements, about nine minutes, drawn from a bank of 288. A short version uses 36. You still rate one statement at a time. Trade, immigration, religion, the military and technology can move separately from the economic score, so a left-right label is only one of the twelve numbers.
Four scores, Economy, Power, Intervention and Culture, are compared with 38 ideologies. You see the runners-up. Economy and Power also become the compass position, from -10 to +10, so the familiar picture is included. The other eight scores choose the closest country and historical figure. Country positions describe institutions, not how a public votes.
The arithmetic is published, and there is no account. If you wanted the nine percentages described above, use that project or the independent copy on this site. If you wanted a percentage on each of twelve lines, stay for the test linked from this page. Taking one does not require you to skip the other. Neither result is a validated measurement.
Which map to open
- One line
- You want a single left-right place. The spectrum page does that from the Economy score, and it says what the line leaves out.
- Nine axes
- You want the nine pairs named on the 9Axes page, in the 45-statement or 216-statement length. That quiz is a separate project.
- Two axes
- You want only the compass dot. That quiz lives on another site. A result here includes the dot and ten further scores.
- Twelve values
- You want the issues kept apart, including trade and technology. The standard length is about nine minutes, with no account.
Looking for the nine-axis original
The nine-axis quiz described above is published at 9axes.github.io by its own author. This site is not affiliated with that project. An independent copy of its questions is linked from the list above. The twelve-axis test is a different questionnaire.
Open 9axes.github.ioQuestions about a political axis test
What does a political axis test measure?
Only your answers to its statements, turned into a percentage on each line. It does not measure a scientific trait, and it does not know how you vote. More lines mean more room for two views to disagree with each other.
Is this the 9Axes quiz?
No. 9Axes is the project at 9axes.github.io. This page is a comparison written by 12 Axes Test. We are not affiliated with it. This site does host an independent copy of that quiz, on its own page, separate from the twelve-axis test.
Why would nine axes and twelve axes disagree?
Because the questions differ. Nine pairs are not twelve, and a statement about markets is not a statement about trade policy or technology. A different label is not a mistake in either quiz.
Is either result accurate?
No political quiz is a validated measuring instrument. Read a result, including the one on this site, as a summary of the answers you gave that day. A published method can at least be checked.
Do I need an account?
No. You can take the twelve-axis test, read the full result and download the PDF without an email address. Answers stay in the browser.
Twelve lines. Draw yours.
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