The baseline
The Classic Political Compass
Two axes, forty statements, one baseline reading of where you actually stand.
Every serious comparison needs a baseline. This is ours. Forty statements, balanced between economic and social questions, produce a single coordinate on the familiar two-axis grid — and that coordinate is what every other test on this site measures against.
40
Statements
5-point Likert
Scale
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Respondents
A note on method
Each statement is scored on a five-point Likert scale and mapped to one axis with a fixed direction. Axis scores are the mean of their statements, rescaled to a range of -10 to +10. Statements are balanced so that agreement does not consistently favour one pole.