8values organizes eight values into four pairs
The official 8values site presents economic, diplomatic, civil, and societal dimensions. Each has two named values. Its results summarize responses to political statements and also attempt an ideology match.
The project itself cautions that ideology matching is a work in progress. Treating a label as a useful prompt is more reasonable than assuming the result establishes membership in a political tradition.
9Axes separates more questions about politics
9Axes describes itself as based on 8values and reports nine dimensions. Its model separates topics such as local versus national government, military policy, religion in public life, and cultural integration.
At the time of this guide’s review, its official page offers a 45-question short version and a 216-question full version. Those versions sample different numbers of statements per axis. Length is one practical difference; the definitions and question wording also matter.
An axis name does not guarantee the same measurement
Two projects can both use a word such as “equality” while emphasizing different policies. One may ask mainly about redistribution; another may include ownership, labor law, and public services. Your agreement with those ideas can differ.
Percentages also reflect how a project translates responses into a scale. They are not a universal unit of political belief. A difference between two results may come from the instrument as well as from how you answered that day.
Where this independent My Political Values test fits
This project uses an original set of 96 statements, with a 48-question quick version. It reports twelve dimensions, including economic equality, public services, workplace power, civil liberties, democratic voice, local versus central power, social change, religion, migration, international cooperation, security, and the environment.
Every question contributes to one axis with equal weight. Each mode balances statements pointing toward each endpoint. “Not sure” is excluded from scoring and shown through lower answer coverage. The full formula and all statements are available in the methodology and axis pages.
This project is separate from 8values, 9Axes, and other websites called 12Axes, including politicaltests.github.io/12axes. A shared naming convention does not mean shared ownership, endorsement, or interchangeable results.
Which result should you trust?
Start by trusting the evidence you can inspect: the question you answered, the value assigned to it, and the explanation of what the scale measures. Be more cautious about sweeping claims that you “are” one ideology.
If tests disagree, read their statements side by side. You may find a meaningful distinction—such as supporting international cooperation but being skeptical of military intervention—that one result combines and another separates. That is a reason to investigate further, not a reason to average the percentages.
Sources & further reading
Descriptions of other tests are based on their own published explanations, reviewed October 1, 2026. Our comparisons interpret those descriptions; they are not independent validation studies.