SapplyValues Political Test

Statement 01 of 46About 8 min left

Freedom of business is the best practical way a society can prosper.

Answers stay on this device. Keys 1 to 5 pick an answer while the form has focus.

3 axes · 46 original questions

What you get: a sample result

This is a sample of the result the SapplyValues test gives, with example scores. Finish the test and the result shows your own three axes, your closest ideology, and the figure, country and historical state nearest to you.

Sample result

SapplyValuesClosest match on three axes

Social Liberalism

Portrait of Olof Palme — 95%Closest figureOlof Palme

LeftRight72.5%27.5%

LibertarianAuthoritarian61.0%39.0%

ConservativeProgressive17.0%83.0%

Closest countryUruguay90%

Historically closestSecond Spanish Republic 1931–193995%

83.0% towards Progressive — the strongest axis

Farthest from this result

Afghanistan43%

Francisco Franco Farthest figure43%

Portraits: Olof Palme: public domain; Francisco Franco: Unknown author, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sample: example scores, not a real person.

How the three axes are scored

Each statement moves one axis, up or down by one. Strongly Agree counts 1, Agree 0.5, Neutral / Unsure 0, Disagree −0.5 and Strongly Disagree −1 times that move. The answers on an axis are added, divided by the most they could add up to and multiplied by 10: a number from −10 to 10 with two decimals, as in the original SapplyValues.

Left–Right, Libertarian–Authoritarian and Conservative–Progressive are the three axes; the original calls them the Left / Right, Auth / Lib and Prog / Con axes. Here each is also shown as the shares of its two ends, which add to 100%: the first end has 50% minus 5% for each point of the number, the second 50% plus 5%.

The original SapplyValues gives no ideology name. The closest match is a step added by this site: the nearest of the 52 ideologies listed by 8values, found with the distance rule of 8values on the three axes both tests have (economic, authority and society; the diplomatic axis of 8values is left out). The closest figure, country and historical state are added by this site on the same three axes of the 12 Axes registers.

Source and licence

This test uses the complete original MIT-licensed SapplyValues question bank and scoring rule. The result design is ours. 12axestest.com is independent and not made by or affiliated with SapplyValues.