Four paired values
Each axis shows both values as percentages that add up to 100, such as 59% Equality and 41% Markets.
Unofficial · Open-source 8values
8values political test.
Seventy statements place you on four axes: economic, diplomatic, civil and societal. The statements, scoring and closest-match rule are the original 8values ones.
The four 8values axes
- EconomicEqualityvsMarkets
- DiplomaticNationvsGlobe
- CivilLibertyvsAuthority
- SocietalTraditionvsProgress
Each axis splits 100% between its two values. Your result also names the closest of 52 ideology profiles.
Your result
What the 8values result shows.
Every part of the result uses the original 8values rules, so it matches what the official site would show for the same answers.
One word per axis
A score above 90 on Equality reads “Communist”, 40–60 reads “Centrist”, and so on, using the seven original labels for each axis.
One of 52 ideologies
Your four scores are compared with 52 ideology profiles from 8values. The nearest one is shown, as a starting point rather than a verdict.
Method
How 8values scores an answer.
Each statement moves one or more axes. Your answer sets how far: Strongly agree counts fully, Agree half, Neutral not at all, and the disagree answers count in the other direction.
Each axis score compares your total with the most it could be, so every axis runs from 0 to 100.
Demo · Statement 1 · Economic axis
One answer, step by step.
- The statement’s weight.
“Oppression by corporations is more of a concern than oppression by governments.” moves Economic by +10 (toward Equality) and Civil by −5.
- Your answer.
Agree multiplies the weight by 0.5, adding +5 to your Economic total.
- The axis score.
Economic weights across all 70 statements add up to 195 in absolute terms. If your answers total +39, the score is 100 × (195 + 39) ÷ 390 = 60.0% Equality, and Markets is 40.0%.
8values and 12Axes
Four axes here, twelve on our main test.
- 30 of the 70 8values statements also appear, word for word, in the 12Axes question bank. See where they appear.
- 12Axes splits topics that 8values combines, such as trade, religion and technology, and adds a “Somewhat” answer on each side.
- Percentages from the two tests are calculated differently, so compare the topics rather than the numbers.
Source and licence.
- This is an unofficial version of 8values, created in 2017 and published under the MIT licence. Statements, weights, labels and ideology profiles are unchanged from its source (commit 3971ed8, August 2021). Read the licence.
- We are not affiliated with the 8values project. Its official site is 8values.github.io.
- Your answers are scored in your browser. The test and results pages load no advertising or analytics scripts.