12Axes all results: how to read your political profile
Every result contains twelve percentages, ideology matches, a country match and a political personality match. Here is what each part means.
The twelve result dimensions
01 · Federal × Unitary
How much power regional governments should hold. The federal side favors strong local autonomy, the unitary side prefers one national center of decision making.
02 · Democracy × Autocracy
Who should decide. The democratic pole trusts broad participation and elections; the autocratic pole accepts concentrated leadership that can act without wide consultation.
03 · Security × Liberty
The tension between collective safety and individual freedom. A score toward security accepts more surveillance and policing in exchange for order.
04 · Assimilation × Multiculturalism
How a society should handle cultural difference and immigration. One pole expects newcomers to adopt the majority culture, the other supports communities keeping their own.
05 · Militarist × Pacifist
Your view of armed force. Militarist answers treat military strength as a normal tool of the state; pacifist answers prefer disarmament and negotiation.
06 · Non-interventionist × Nationalist
How a country should behave abroad, from staying out of other nations' affairs to asserting its own interests forcefully.
07 · Public × Private
The ownership question: state or collective control of key sectors against private property and enterprise.
08 · Planning × Free market
How the economy should be coordinated: deliberate planning and regulation on one side, prices and open competition on the other.
09 · Protectionism × Globalism
The trade axis. Protectionist answers defend tariffs and domestic industry; globalist answers favor open markets across borders.
10 · Irreligious × Religious
The place of religion in law and public life, from strictly secular institutions to policy informed by faith.
11 · Progressive × Traditionalist
Social and moral questions. The progressive pole welcomes changing norms; the traditionalist pole defends established customs and institutions.
12 · Technology × Biology
Enthusiasm for rapid technological change and human enhancement on one side, a preference for natural limits and caution about engineering life on the other.
How percentages are calculated
Every response adds weight toward one pole of one axis. The final percentage is the average position for that dimension. A 50/50 result is balanced; larger gaps indicate stronger alignment with one pole.
How to read a balanced result
A bar close to 50/50 is not a failure to measure you. It usually means your answers pulled toward both poles, or that the short version gave that axis only a few questions. The intensity label next to each bar reflects the distance from the center. Read positions near the middle as genuinely mixed and treat the strongly one-sided bars as the backbone of your profile.
What the match percentage means
Your twelve percentages form a vector. The matching service measures its proximity to political ideologies, country profiles and historical personalities. A match is similarity, not endorsement or proof of membership.
Common ways to misread a result
- The headline label is a summary, not the result itself. The twelve bars carry the detail.
- A high match with a country or a historical personality means your percentages sit close to that profile. It is not an endorsement of everything that state or person did.
- There are no right answers, and answering strategically to reach a wanted label measures your aim rather than your views.
- Two runs can differ, especially in the 36-question version, because each run samples different statements from the bank of 240.
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