What this test is for
My Political Values is an educational tool for reflecting on political values. It organizes your responses into twelve dimensions. It is not a diagnostic instrument, a population survey, a party recommendation, or a measure of how informed or consistent you are.
The questions, axis definitions, and scoring rules were developed for this project. The interface follows the broader tradition of values-based political quizzes, but the results are specific to this questionnaire.
Two lengths. The same twelve dimensions.
The quick test has 48 questions: four per axis. The full test has 96: eight per axis. The quick test uses the first four statements in each axis’s question bank. The full test adds four more. Questions alternate across axes so that the test does not ask every question on one subject together.
Within each axis and each test length, half of the statements point toward one endpoint when you agree; half point toward the other. This balances scoring direction, but it does not prove that the wording is unbiased or that every position is represented equally well.
Every axis page publishes its actual questions and the direction in which agreement is scored. Questions have equal weight within an axis. An answer affects exactly one axis.
The complete scoring formula
| Response | Value | Included? |
|---|---|---|
| Strongly agree | +2 | Yes |
| Agree | +1 | Yes |
| Neutral | 0 | Yes |
| Disagree | −1 | Yes |
| Strongly disagree | −2 | Yes |
| Skip / not sure | None | No |
For each answered statement, multiply the response value by its direction: +1 when agreement points toward the first named endpoint, or −1 when agreement points toward the second. Add those adjusted values for an axis, then divide by the number of answered statements on that axis.
The average ranges from −2 to +2, so the result ranges from 0% to 100%. Percentages are rounded to whole numbers for readability. If there are no answered questions on an axis, no percentage is calculated.
A worked example
Suppose four questions alternate between agreement pointing toward the first and second endpoints. You answer Strongly agree (+2), Disagree (−1), Agree (+1), and Neutral (0). After applying directions of +1, −1, +1, and −1, the adjusted values are +2, +1, +1, and 0.
The sum is 4 across four answers, giving an average of 1. The first endpoint receives 50 + 25 × 1 = 75%; the second receives 25%.
If you skip the fourth question instead of choosing Neutral, the average becomes 4 ÷ 3. The rounded result is 83% and 17%, with coverage of three out of four questions. This is why skipping and neutrality are different.
What the percentages mean
A percentage describes the direction and strength of your answers on this set of statements. It is not the proportion of a political ideology you possess, the chance you belong to a party, or your percentile compared with other people.
- Scores from 41% through 59% toward the first endpoint are labeled “Mixed / balanced.”
- Scores from 60% through 79% or from 21% through 40% are labeled as leaning toward the corresponding endpoint.
- Scores of at least 80% or at most 20% are labeled as a strong leaning.
- An axis with no answers is marked unmeasured. We do not substitute 50%.
These descriptive cutoffs are editorial choices. A one-point change across a cutoff does not imply a meaningful change in your political beliefs. A midpoint can also hide disagreement between individual answers.
Coverage is not confidence
Each result shows the number of answered statements per axis. Skips reduce this coverage. Answering a single question can produce an extreme percentage, but it provides very little information. Results with fewer than half the available questions answered receive a limited-coverage label and are excluded from the prominent-leanings summary.
The full version gives you more prompts per axis. We have not measured whether it is more reliable, and we do not attach statistical confidence intervals or accuracy claims to either version.
What has not been validated
This test has not undergone independent psychometric validation. We have not established test–retest reliability, factor structure, representative population norms, prediction of voting behavior, or equivalence across countries and languages. More axes do not establish greater validity.
The dimensions can overlap. Some combine related policy questions that you may answer differently. Wording, question order, current events, and how you interpret a statement can affect your result. Our labels are simplifications, and people within any political tradition can disagree.
Balanced question direction is one design precaution, not a guarantee of neutrality. Use the question bank to inspect the model. When a score does not fit, ask which statements produced it rather than assuming the test knows you better than you do.
Data and sharing
Scoring happens in your browser. Answers and progress are stored locally when browser storage is available. The test has no answer-submission endpoint. A shared result encodes rounded scores and coverage counts in the URL fragment after the # symbol; it does not include the original answers.
Fragments are not sent in the normal page request. Anyone who receives the full link can still read the result. Shared results are editable and unverified; they should not be used as proof of someone’s beliefs. Read the privacy details.